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Title Machine Learning-Based Economic Development Mapping From Multi-Source Open Geospatial Data
ID_Doc 79151
Authors Cao, R; Tu, W; Cai, JX; Zhao, TH; Xiao, J; Cao, JZ; Gao, QL; Su, HJ
Title Machine Learning-Based Economic Development Mapping From Multi-Source Open Geospatial Data
Year 2022
Published
DOI 10.5194/isprs-annals-V-4-2022-259-2022
Abstract Timely and accurate socioeconomic indicators are the prerequisite for smart social governance. For example, the level of economic development and the structure of population are important statistics for regional or national policy-making. However, the collection of these characteristics usually depends on demographic and social surveys, which are time- and labor-intensive. To address these issues, we propose a machine learning-based approach to estimate and map the economic development from multi-source open available geospatial data, including remote sensing imagery and OpenStreetMap road networks. Specifically, we first extract knowledge-based features from different data sources; then the multi-view graphs are constructed through different perspectives of spatial adjacency and feature similarity; and a multi-view graph neural network (MVGNN) model is built on them and trained in a self-supervised learning manner. Then, the handcrafted features and the learned graph representations are combined to estimate the regional economic development indicators via random forest models. Taking China's county-level gross domestic product (GDP) as an example, extensive experiments have been conducted and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the combination of the knowledge-based and learning-based features can significantly outperform baseline methods. Our proposed approach can advance the goal of acquiring timely and accurate socioeconomic variables through widely accessible geospatial data, which has the potential to extend to more social indicators and other geographic regions to support smart governance and policy-making in the future.
Author Keywords Economic Development; Remote Sensing; Geospatial Big Data; Data Fusion; Machine learning
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
EID WOS:000855205000032
WoS Category Geography, Physical; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Research Area Physical Geography; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
PDF https://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/V-4-2022/259/2022/isprs-annals-V-4-2022-259-2022.pdf
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