Urban environmental quality research is crucial,as cities become competitive centers concentrating human talent,industrial activity,and financial resources,contributing significantly to national economies.Municipal an...Urban environmental quality research is crucial,as cities become competitive centers concentrating human talent,industrial activity,and financial resources,contributing significantly to national economies.Municipal and government priorities include retaining residents,preventing skilled worker outflow,and meeting the evolving needs of urban populations.The study presents the development and application of a scenario-based spatial analysis tool for assessing urban environmental quality at a detailed spatial scale within the city of Novosibirsk.Using advanced geoinformatics,GIS techniques,and an expert knowledge base,the tool integrates diverse thematic data layers with user-defined scenarios to compute and visualize the Scenario-based Urban Environment Quality Index across 87,905 standardized unit areas.The methodology incorporates comprehensive criteria aligned with existing urban planning frameworks and includes demographic targeting to address the city’s heterogeneous population.Validation against expert evaluations demonstrates high accuracy and consistency,while dynamicmodeling capabilities facilitate monitoring the effects of planned urban development initiatives.This approach bridges a critical gap in urban planning by providing granular,data-driven insights that reflect residents’real needs and spatial inequalities.The tool greatly benefits municipal authorities by enabling evidence-based prioritization of interventions,fostering inclusive and sustainable urban growth,and enhancing transparency and participatory governance.Its implementation as a no-code/low-code QGIS plugin ensures wide accessibility and practical application in strategic urban development,marking a significant advancement in urban environment quality assessment science and practice.展开更多
The advancement of effective spatial planning to support sustainable development and interregional cooperation has become an issue of serious concern for regional authorities.Spatial planning research helps to identif...The advancement of effective spatial planning to support sustainable development and interregional cooperation has become an issue of serious concern for regional authorities.Spatial planning research helps to identify economic clusters and analyze their changing spatial patterns,which is important for understanding regional economic space dynamics and poten-tial inter-regional cooperation.To support decision-makers in the development of efficient plans of spatial development encompassing the identification of the best-suited territories,a combined Geographic Information System(GIS)based approach to interpret qualitatively expressed multiple socio-economic scenarios in quantitative map-based terms of graded suitability,and a formalized approach to the socio-economic evaluation of the territory is offered.Based on GIS technology coupled with integrated cellular automata decision analysis techniques,the study provides a method that performs socio-economic assessment of the study area according to the generated scenarios of regional spatial and socio-economic development.The proposed method is applied to Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais,located in the Russian Far East.Socio-economic scenarios of spatial development initiated by investors and regional authorities were assessed and evaluated.The generated socio-economic scenar-ios illustrate how the unified set of spatial and socio-economic variables can be linked and used to gain insights into inter-regional socio-economic and spatial development.The application results demonstrate the advantage of the proposed method in identifying the best-suited unit areas for targeted regional development.展开更多
Geoinformatics education is a key factor for sustainable development of geo-spatial sciences and industries.There have been a variety of educational activities focusing on education and training,technology transfer,an...Geoinformatics education is a key factor for sustainable development of geo-spatial sciences and industries.There have been a variety of educational activities focusing on education and training,technology transfer,and capability building in photogrammetry,remote sensing,and spatial information science,together known as Geoinformatics.Geoinformatics education is an essential mission and even determinant in the ISPRS society.The paper discusses key issues in Geoinformatics education.It reviews educational activities from the ISPRS perspective and summarizes lessons learned from these actions.A vision towards future trends of Geoinformatics education in the ISPRS is provided.展开更多
基金funded by theMinistry of Science and Higher Education of Russia,R&D project number FEFS-2026-0003.
文摘Urban environmental quality research is crucial,as cities become competitive centers concentrating human talent,industrial activity,and financial resources,contributing significantly to national economies.Municipal and government priorities include retaining residents,preventing skilled worker outflow,and meeting the evolving needs of urban populations.The study presents the development and application of a scenario-based spatial analysis tool for assessing urban environmental quality at a detailed spatial scale within the city of Novosibirsk.Using advanced geoinformatics,GIS techniques,and an expert knowledge base,the tool integrates diverse thematic data layers with user-defined scenarios to compute and visualize the Scenario-based Urban Environment Quality Index across 87,905 standardized unit areas.The methodology incorporates comprehensive criteria aligned with existing urban planning frameworks and includes demographic targeting to address the city’s heterogeneous population.Validation against expert evaluations demonstrates high accuracy and consistency,while dynamicmodeling capabilities facilitate monitoring the effects of planned urban development initiatives.This approach bridges a critical gap in urban planning by providing granular,data-driven insights that reflect residents’real needs and spatial inequalities.The tool greatly benefits municipal authorities by enabling evidence-based prioritization of interventions,fostering inclusive and sustainable urban growth,and enhancing transparency and participatory governance.Its implementation as a no-code/low-code QGIS plugin ensures wide accessibility and practical application in strategic urban development,marking a significant advancement in urban environment quality assessment science and practice.
基金supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia[grant number 075-15-2020-804].
文摘The advancement of effective spatial planning to support sustainable development and interregional cooperation has become an issue of serious concern for regional authorities.Spatial planning research helps to identify economic clusters and analyze their changing spatial patterns,which is important for understanding regional economic space dynamics and poten-tial inter-regional cooperation.To support decision-makers in the development of efficient plans of spatial development encompassing the identification of the best-suited territories,a combined Geographic Information System(GIS)based approach to interpret qualitatively expressed multiple socio-economic scenarios in quantitative map-based terms of graded suitability,and a formalized approach to the socio-economic evaluation of the territory is offered.Based on GIS technology coupled with integrated cellular automata decision analysis techniques,the study provides a method that performs socio-economic assessment of the study area according to the generated scenarios of regional spatial and socio-economic development.The proposed method is applied to Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais,located in the Russian Far East.Socio-economic scenarios of spatial development initiated by investors and regional authorities were assessed and evaluated.The generated socio-economic scenar-ios illustrate how the unified set of spatial and socio-economic variables can be linked and used to gain insights into inter-regional socio-economic and spatial development.The application results demonstrate the advantage of the proposed method in identifying the best-suited unit areas for targeted regional development.
基金supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University in China[grant number NCET-13-0435]the Hubei Science and Technology Support Program in China[grant number 2014BAA087]+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 91438203]the Major State Research Development Program of China[grant number 2016YFB0502301].
文摘Geoinformatics education is a key factor for sustainable development of geo-spatial sciences and industries.There have been a variety of educational activities focusing on education and training,technology transfer,and capability building in photogrammetry,remote sensing,and spatial information science,together known as Geoinformatics.Geoinformatics education is an essential mission and even determinant in the ISPRS society.The paper discusses key issues in Geoinformatics education.It reviews educational activities from the ISPRS perspective and summarizes lessons learned from these actions.A vision towards future trends of Geoinformatics education in the ISPRS is provided.
