,
Yu Liu
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The understanding of geographical reality is a process of data representation and pattern discovery. Former studies mainly adopted continuous-field models to represent spatial variables and to investigate the underlying spatial continuity/heterogeneity in a regular spatial domain. In this article, we introduce a more generalized model based on graph convolutional neural networks that can capture the complex parameters of spatial patterns underlying graph-structured spatial data, which generally contain both Euclidean spatial information and non-Euclidean feature information. A trainable site-selection framework is proposed to demonstrate the feasibility of our model in geographic decision problems.
@InProceedings{zhu_et_al:LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.73,
author = {Zhu, Di and Liu, Yu},
title = {{Modelling Spatial Patterns Using Graph Convolutional Networks}},
booktitle = {10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)},
pages = {73:1--73:7},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-083-5},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {114},
editor = {Winter, Stephan and Griffin, Amy and Sester, Monika},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.73},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-94016},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.73},
annote = {Keywords: Spatial pattern, Graph convolution, Big geo-data, Deep neural networks, Urban configuration}
}