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Remote Sensing |
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luyao wang,hong fan,yankun wang* |
出版年份: |
2019 |
卷 号: |
11 |
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Previous studies have attempted to disaggregate census data into fine resolution with
multisource remote sensing data considering the importance of fine-resolution population distribution
in urban planning, environmental protection, resource allocation, and social economy. However, the
lack of direct human activity information invariably restricts the accuracy of population mapping and
reduces the credibility of the mapping process even when external facility distribution information is
adopted. To address these problems, the present study proposed a novel population mapping method
by combining International Space Station (ISS) photography nighttime light data, point of interest
(POI) data, and location-based social media data. A similarity matching model, consisting of semantic
and distance matching models, was established to integrate POI and social media data. Eective
information was extracted from the integrated data through principal component analysis and then
used along with road density information to train the random forest (RF) model. A comparison with
WordPop data proved that our method can generate fine-resolution population distribution with
higher accuracy (R2 = 0.91) than those of previous studies (R2 = 0.55). To illustrate the advantages of
our method, we highlighted the limitations of previous methods that ignore social media data in
handling residential regions with similar light intensity. We also discussed the performance of our
method in adopting social media data, considering their characteristics, with dierent volumes and
acquisition times. Results showed that social media data acquired between 19:00 and 8:00 with a
volume of approximately 300,000 will help our method realize high accuracy with low computation
burden. This study showed the great potential of combining social sensing data for disaggregating
fine-resolution population.