Exploring human activity patterns using taxicab static points

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-107

  Jia, Tao ^a,b   Jiang, Bin ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Entropy; Human activities; Regularity; Scaling; Static points (SPs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886248057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi1010089     Document Type: Article

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