Geoscientists aim to improve human security through planet-scale POI modeling
Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur helped develop MapSpace, a land-use modeling framework developed from natural language data, geotagging and global location data. Credit: Lena Shoemaker/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest (POIs) around the world, they turned to…