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By Jessé Burlamaque
arXiv:2606. 28390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial vector data quality is a foundational research topic in GIS, yet classic rule-based quality assessment algorithms often struggle with diverse urban morphologies and massive data volumes.
By Hao Li, Chen Chu, Filip Biljecki, Cyrus Shahabi, Wenwen Li
arXiv:2506. 01297v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Representation learning of geospatial locations remains a core challenge in achieving general geospatial intelligence, with increasingly diverging philosophies and techniques.
By Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Qiyao Ma, Linyan Li, Xinhua Chen, Chris Webster, Yulun Zhou
arXiv:2608. 17848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geospatial Foundation Models (GFMs) are emerging as a powerful paradigm for learning semantically rich and geographically consistent visual and physical representations.
By Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Yulun Zhou, Alec Kirkley
arXiv:2507. 02921v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning effective representations of urban environments requires capturing spatial structure beyond fixed administrative boundaries.
By Mohammad Hashemi, Hossein Amiri, Andreas Zufle
arXiv:2607. 05257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Origin-destination (OD) flow modeling underpins urban planning and mobility analysis, but prevailing graph-based methods often neglect salient geographic attributes, limiting their ability to model long-range and multi-area dependencies.
By Zherui Huang, Guanjie Zheng, Hao Xue, Linghe Kong
arXiv:2505. 02271v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The proliferation of Generative Artificial Ingelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models, presents transformative opportunities for urban applications through Urban Foundation Models.
By David Nazareno Campo, Javier Conde, \'Alvaro Alonso, Gabriel Huecas, Joaqu\'in Salvach\'ua, Pedro Reviriego
arXiv:2405. 17468v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human mobility plays a crucial role in transportation, urban planning, and public health, but current approaches face important limitations.
By Xishun Liao, Qinhua Jiang, Brian Yueshuai He, Yifan Liu, Chenchen Kuai, Jiaqi Ma
arXiv:2607. 19392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arsenic contamination in groundwater presents a longstanding public health crisis in the United States, especially for households depending on private wells.
By William Xing, Stephanie Yang, Aarush Bandemegal, Anushree Misra, Ananya Kalapatapu, Brennan Lagasse, Kevin Zhu
There have been many recent improvements in the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform complex tasks and answer domain-specific questions through techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). However, reasoning abilities of LLMs, including spatial reasoning abilities, are still lacking.
arXiv:2606. 07172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial understanding is a critical yet underexplored dimension in the development of machine learning systems for tasks such as image geolocation and spatial reasoning.
By Marcelo Sartori Locatelli, Fernando Tonucci, Jea Kwon, Luiz Felipe Vecchietti, Bryan Nathanael Wijaya, Cheng Yaw Low, Virgilio Almeida, Meeyoung Cha
arXiv:2608. 14660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study proposes a ring-based SpatialTransformer to learn how building uses at different distances from a railway station interact to generate pedestrian flow.
By Shun Nakayama, Takahiro Kanamori, Wanglin Yan