Mining point-of-interest data from social networks for urban land use classification and disaggregation

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 36-46

  Jiang, Shan ^a   Alves, Ana ^b   Rodrigues, Filipe ^c   Ferreira, Joseph ^a   Pereira, Francisco C ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Land use; Machine learning; Points of interest; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; POINT OF INTEREST; POINTS OF INTEREST; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

LAND USE;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIS; INTERNET; LAND USE LOCATION; MINING; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN AREA;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945445425     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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