Extracting urban functional regions from points of interest and human activities on location-based social networks

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 446-467

  Gao, Song ^a   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Couclelis, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; LOCATION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

CHECK-IN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; LAND USE TYPE; LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS; REGION-BASED; SPATIAL RELATIONS; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; TOPIC MODELING; URBAN LAND USE;

LAND USE;

HUMAN ACTIVITY; MODELING; PUBLIC SPACE; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021144614     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12289     Document Type: Article

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