• openAccess   A Statistical Approach for Studying the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Geolocated Tweets in Urban Environments 

      Santa, Fernando; Henriques, Roberto; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Pebesma, Edzer MDPI (2019)
      An in-depth descriptive approach to the dynamics of the urban population is fundamental as a first step towards promoting effective planning and designing processes in cities. Understanding the behavioral aspects of human ...
    • openAccess   Air Quality Monitoring Network Design Optimisation for Robust Land Use Regression Models 

      Gupta, Shivam; Pebesma, Edzer; Mateu, Jorge; Degbelo, Auriol MDPI (2018)
      A very common curb of epidemiological studies for understanding the impact of air pollution on health is the quality of exposure data available. Many epidemiological studies rely on empirical modelling techniques, such ...
    • openAccess   Do Monetary Incentives Influence Users’ Behavior in Participatory Sensing? 

      Ngo, Manh Khoi; Casteleyn, Sven; Moradi, Mehdi; Pebesma, Edzer MDPI (2018)
      Participatory sensing combines the powerful sensing capabilities of current mobile devices with the mobility and intelligence of human beings, and as such has to potential to collect various types of information at a high ...
    • openAccess   Nearest neighbour distance matching Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation for map validation 

      Milà, Carles; Mateu, Jorge; Pebesma, Edzer; Meyer, Hanna John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society (2022-03-28)
      1. Several spatial and non-spatial Cross-Validation (CV) methods have been used to perform map validation when additional sampling for validation purposes is not possible, yet it is unclear in which situations one CV ...
    • openAccess   Quality of life, big data and the power of statistics 

      Gupta, Shivam; Mateu, Jorge; Degbelo, Auriol; Pebesma, Edzer Elsevier (2018)
      The digital era has opened up new possibilities for data-driven research. This paper discusses big data challenges in environmental monitoring and reflects on the use of statisticalmethodsintacklingthesechallengesforim ...
    • openAccess   Ranking European capitals by exposure to heat waves and cold waves 

      Smid, M.; Russo, S.; Costa, Ana Cristina; Granell, Carlos; Pebesma, Edzer Elsevier (2019)
      In warming Europe, we are witnessing a growth in urban population with aging trend, which willmake the society more exposed and vulnerable to extreme weather events. In the period1950–2015 the occurrence of extreme heat ...