A diffusion-based approach to obtaining the borders of urban areas

Autor(es)

Comin, Cesar Henrique ^[1] ; Silva, Filipi Nascimento ^[1] ; Costa, Luciano da Fontoura ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT; MAY 2016.
• Citações Web of Science: 1

Resumo

The access to an ever increasing amount of information in the modern world gave rise to the development of many quantitative indicators about urban regions in the globe. Therefore, there is a growing need for a precise definition of how to delimit urban regions, so as to allow proper respective characterization and modeling. Here we present a straightforward methodology to automatically detect urban region borders around a single seed point. The method is based on a diffusion process having street crossings and terminations as source points. We exemplify the potential of the methodology by characterizing the geometry and topology of 21 urban regions obtained from 8 distinct countries. The geometry is studied by employing the lacunarity measurement, which is associated to the regularity of holes contained in a pattern. The topology is analyzed by associating the betweenness centrality of the streets with their respective class, such as motorway or residential, obtained from a database. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 11/22639-8 - Estudo da relação estrutura-dinâmica em redes modulares
• Beneficiário: Cesar Henrique Comin
• Linha de fomento: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 11/50761-2 - Modelos e métodos de e-Science para ciências da vida e agrárias
• Beneficiário: Roberto Marcondes Cesar Junior
• Linha de fomento: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático