Summary

Траектория Анализ данных для пешеходного пространства-времени активность исследование

Published: February 25, 2013
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Summary

Набор пространственно-временных методов обработки представлены для анализа человеческого данные траектории, такие как данные, собранные с помощью устройства GPS, с целью моделирования пешеходного пространства-времени деятельности.

Abstract

It is well recognized that human movement in the spatial and temporal dimensions has direct influence on disease transmission1-3. An infectious disease typically spreads via contact between infected and susceptible individuals in their overlapped activity spaces. Therefore, daily mobility-activity information can be used as an indicator to measure exposures to risk factors of infection. However, a major difficulty and thus the reason for paucity of studies of infectious disease transmission at the micro scale arise from the lack of detailed individual mobility data. Previously in transportation and tourism research detailed space-time activity data often relied on the time-space diary technique, which requires subjects to actively record their activities in time and space. This is highly demanding for the participants and collaboration from the participants greatly affects the quality of data4.

Modern technologies such as GPS and mobile communications have made possible the automatic collection of trajectory data. The data collected, however, is not ideal for modeling human space-time activities, limited by the accuracies of existing devices. There is also no readily available tool for efficient processing of the data for human behavior study. We present here a suite of methods and an integrated ArcGIS desktop-based visual interface for the pre-processing and spatiotemporal analyses of trajectory data. We provide examples of how such processing may be used to model human space-time activities, especially with error-rich pedestrian trajectory data, that could be useful in public health studies such as infectious disease transmission modeling.

The procedure presented includes pre-processing, trajectory segmentation, activity space characterization, density estimation and visualization, and a few other exploratory analysis methods. Pre-processing is the cleaning of noisy raw trajectory data. We introduce an interactive visual pre-processing interface as well as an automatic module. Trajectory segmentation5 involves the identification of indoor and outdoor parts from pre-processed space-time tracks. Again, both interactive visual segmentation and automatic segmentation are supported. Segmented space-time tracks are then analyzed to derive characteristics of one’s activity space such as activity radius etc. Density estimation and visualization are used to examine large amount of trajectory data to model hot spots and interactions. We demonstrate both density surface mapping6 and density volume rendering7. We also include a couple of other exploratory data analyses (EDA) and visualizations tools, such as Google Earth animation support and connection analysis. The suite of analytical as well as visual methods presented in this paper may be applied to any trajectory data for space-time activity studies.

Protocol

1. Получение данных Траектория данные могут быть собраны с ручных приборов GPS, GPS с поддержкой приложений для смарт-телефон отслеживания, а также A-GPS (Assisted GPS) устройств, таких как одного занятого в нашем исследовании, коммерческие устройства трекер ребенка. Траектория данных о…

Representative Results

Траектория Данные были собраны на добровольных началах студентов из Кин университета (Нью-Джерси, США) весной 2010 года. Целью было изучить активность моделей студенты, которые поймали гриппа (диагноз врача или самостоятельно диагностировать) по сравнению с теми, кто этого не сделал. Для …

Discussion

Мы использовали дополнения в механизме ArcGIS для разработки интерфейса. Все интерактивные операции были реализованы с помощью C + +. Все автоматической обработки и анализа функций были разработаны с использованием Python.

AGPS данных или GPS данных, собранных пешеходных предста?…

Disclosures

The authors have nothing to disclose.

Acknowledgements

Эта работа финансируется за счет грантов NIH 1R03AI090465.

Materials

Name of the reagent Company Catalogue number Comments (optional)
WorldTracker GPRS Tracking The World
A personal computer for running the analysis
ArcGIS software ESRI
Trajectory Analyzer Extension

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Qi, F., Du, F. Trajectory Data Analyses for Pedestrian Space-time Activity Study. J. Vis. Exp. (72), e50130, doi:10.3791/50130 (2013).

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