Jaroslav Burian

Palacký University Olomouc · Department of Geoinformatics

Controlled urban development is essential for the effective functioning of cities. Land suitability analysis can guide this development towards appropriate areas. This study utilized the Urban Planner methodology (based on multicriteria analysis) to model land suitability for Jihlava for the present and two future horizons: five and ten years. To r...

The coexistence of humans and nature has been a recurring theme throughout history, gaining particular importance in the context of climate change and the sustainability of our planet for future generations. However, the delicate balance between humans and nature is often disrupted, as exemplified by the Litovelské Pomoraví Protected Landscape Area...

To understand the environmental determinants of physical activity (PA), precise spatial localization is crucial. This cross-sectional study focuses on the spatiotemporal distribution of PA among Czech adolescents (n = 171) using Global Positioning System loggers and accelerometers. The results showed that adolescents spent most of their time in sed...

Informace o rozložení obyvatelstva v prostoru jsou nezbytné pro popis naší společnosti i pro studium vzájemných vztahů mezi prvky humánně-geografické sféry – nejinak tomu je v oblasti územního plánování a při správě měst a regionů. Tradiční zdroje dat (obvykle národní registry) však poskytují pouze statický pohled vázaný na bydliště (respektive pra...

Night-Time Light (NTL) satellite imagery is widely recognized and valued as a powerful tool for spatial analysis and research. Despite its global popularity, there is absence of similar studies dealing with NTL intensity in Czechia. Using VIIRS/DNB data, our study focused on analyzing the changes in night-time light intensity before and during the...

The paper presents a discontinuity‐based analysis of the settlement pattern changes in the Czechia–Poland cross‐border historical region of Těšín Silesia. An approach based on a well‐known and popular method (regression discontinuity design) was applied to measure spatial discontinuity. To describe the spatiotemporal changes, a combination of spati...

Although quality of life is a phenomenon with a significant geographical component, its assessment is often only based on non-spatial statistical data. In Czechia, there are currently several assessments of quality of life at the level of municipalities, yet they do not consider the spatial aspect of the input indicators. This study uses the existi...

This book will allow you to explore the relationship between geoparticipation and democratic theory. It will also explain how data and geospatial technologies play an important role in urban governance. Furthermore, you will have the oppor- tunity to discover how improving local democracy works, and what the determi- nants of civic participation ar...

This paper and accompanying map aim on the issue of brain drain (otherwise known as Human Capital Flight) concerning cultural and creative industries. The study is focused on the evaluation of Olomouc city, Czechia. In the case of a mid-sized city such as Olomouc, human capital flight is largely associated with cultural and creative fields, because...

This paper describes the Disaggregator tool, developed for the aggregation and disaggregation of spatial data. There exist several types of point data that need to be aggregated for more effective visualization. On the other hand, some statistical datasets are only available for larger areas; the disaggregation procedure can recalculate this data i...

The comparison of multiple maps is a common fundamental process used by geographers to explore the world. The most frequently applied interactive methods for the comparison of maps are multiple view and swipe. Swipe allows the user to interactively drag and overlap two different maps. Multiple view is based on the simultaneous side-by-side display...

The world soon ends up the first year of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, causing a disease labelled as COVID-19. As this disease has been new to everyone, different countries have approached the fight against the disease differently. There is no universal guide on how to deal with the disease’s spread or mitigate its consequences. This chapter in...

The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with a basic overview of the use of geospatial technologies for geoparticipation of citizens. In the first part, the whole issue is set within the broader concept of traditional spatial planning, followed by an overview of new approaches, i.e. participation, smart city, geodesign and spatial analysis...

This chapter focuses on the description of a case study on the use of a computer game for geoparticipation of citizens in spatial planning. The chapter first provides a broader insight into existing city-building games in which real-world environments can be modelled. Next, the technical aspects of creating a model of the city of Olomouc (Czechia)...

This chapter is devoted to the characteristics of open data and the related technical and licensing aspects of its creation and use. The most common data formats and approaches to opening data are presented, which have a major impact on their subsequent use by the professional community. To give you a better idea, the chapter also describes several...

In order to study the relationship between human physical activity and the design of the built environment, it is important to measure the location of human movement accurately. In this study, we compared an inexpensive GPS receiver (Holux RCV-3000) and a frequently used Garmin Forerunner 35 smart watch, with a device that has been validated and re...

In this data description, we introduce a unique (geo)dataset with publicly available information about the municipalities focused on (geo)participatory aspects of local administration. The dataset comprises 6258 Czech municipalities linked with their respective administrative boundaries. In total, 55 attributes were prepared for each municipality....

The active involvement of citizens in decision-making processes via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular research field among geographers, GIScientists, environmental psychologists, political scientists and many others. This paper presents the idea of the Index of geoparticipation – an indicator-based index divided into three dimens...

The article is focused on a detailed micro-study describing changes in the behaviour of the authors in three months before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is based on data from Google Location Service. Despite the fact it evaluates only three people and the study cannot be sufficiently representative, it is a unique example of possible...

Only a limited number of studies have examined land price issues based on official land price maps. A very unique timeline of official land price maps (2006–2019) allowed research to be conducted on four Czech cities (Prague, Olomouc, Ostrava, and Zlín). The main aim of the research was to describe the links between land price, land use types, and...

Due to the current situation, and preventive measures taken to tackle COVID-19, it is crucial to keep society well-informed. Besides media and official news, that often include tabular data, it has also become a new standard for information sources to incorporate a map application or geovisualization. This paper offers a comprehensive and systemati...

Currently, the population ageing is one of the greatest economic, social and environmental challenges facing all EU countries. For this reason, the main goal of this study is analysis of the population ageing and its economic aspects. As the main method we used particular instruments of economic and spatial analysis. As the first step, we evaluated...

This chapter deals with online tools used for spatial data visualisation. Currently, there exist many tools and software that can be used for this purpose, both commercial (e.g. ArcGIS Online) and non-commercial (e.g. MapBox, Leaflet or CartoDB). Within this chapter, we are focusing on the most used software solutions. The text serves the basic ove...

For processing geodata there are many different approaches of which all of them require their own specific input data and parameters to generate an outcome that suits the respective case of application. This chapter introduces the most common analyses that are conducted using a GIS. From basic tools like buffering certain vector geometries or mergi...

This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union. The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics. For the newly introduced courses, interdisciplinary learning...

The paper describes the SimUrb tool, which was used to calculate the similarity between municipalities (or other territorial units) according to several characteristics (attributes). The SimUrb tool allows similar groups between ordered sequences to be found. The tool was designed to work with hundreds of records. In order to find similar groups, t...

The differences in welfare amongst European countries are especially evident in border regions, and this affects cross-border cooperation and relationships. Due to the historical development of Central and Eastern European countries over the last century, the affected countries are unique "laboratories" for geographical research. This study assesse...

One of the ways of improving the attractiveness of public transport is to bring it closer to its potential users. A long walking distance from a stop is often one of the critical factors limiting its more frequent and extensive use. Studies dealing with the accessibility of transport networks usually work only with the closest stop. This article an...

Land price sustainability issues have been addressed by many authors in the past. Most of these researchers used land prices (from land price maps) as the primary data source in their studies. Only a few papers analysed official land price maps, which are available very rarely. For this reason, we studied the spatial and temporal changes of land pr...

Land price sustainability issues have been addressed by many authors in the past. Most of these researchers used land prices (from land price maps) as the primary data source in their studies. Only a few papers analysed official land price maps, which are available very rarely. For this reason, we studied the spatial and temporal changes of land pr...

Active commuting to school or work can have a significant effect on the overall level of physical activity and consequently on human health. To promote active commuting, previous research studies have attempted to identify the common environmental characteristics of travel routes mostly using GPS receivers. Although it is becoming easier to obtain...

Traffic sign recognition is among the major tasks on driver assistance system. The convolutional neural networks (CNN) play an important role to find a good accuracy of traffic sign recognition in order to limit the dangerous acts of the driver and to respect the road laws. The accuracy of the Detection and Classification determines how powerful of...

We are entering an era of data, which are spatially and temporally referenced, this paper offers an opportunity to enhance geographic understanding, more especially in the term of air pollution and its relationship with human health, especially in the city of Mohammedia (Northern part of Morocco). Authors build a tool in the form of data mining sch...

Currently, the population ageing is one of the greatest social and economic challenges facing all EU member states. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to analyse the population ageing issue with detailed focus on Olomouc region and to discuss its economic aspects. As a method we use particular instruments of economic and spatial analysis. We...

The main goal of the paper is an evaluation of the demographic development, the consumption behaviour of households of retired and inclusion of expected changes to the urban planning in cities. Firstly, the paper is focused on the issue of population ageing and consequences connected with sustainable development issue in the regions and cities, inc...

The rapid development of GIS has enabled the combination or integration of different methods, algorithms, and software (models). This lead to the creation of different types of commercial and open source applications (web, mobile, desktop) that are used for data collection, processing, analysis, and visualization. This teaching module covers geo-ap...

This paper presents the results of a quantitative study in the Czech Republic to understand travellers’ attitudes towards and motivation to use different means of transport. Two Czech cities, Olomouc and Ostrava, are compared from the point of view of factors influencing spatial and temporal patterns and citizen’s selection of transport mode and tr...

This paper describes a study of the evaluation of cartographic quality of urban plans in the Czech Republic using eye-tracking. Although map visualization is a crucial part of the urban planning process, only a few studies have focused on the evaluation of these maps. The plans of four Czech cities with different styles of visualization and legends...

Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) is one of the most popular methods for Multiple Criteria Decision-making (MCDM) in the field of geoinformatics. A typical utilization of WLC is in land suitability assessment and optimal location detection. The application of WLC requires the determination of weights for each criterion used in the MCDM problem. In...

This paper and accompanying maps focus on a land suitability assessment of the Olomouc region in the Czech Republic. All results were calculated in Urban Planner, a model designed by the authors of this paper. The method of calculation is based on a multi-criteria analysis (weighted overlay method), respects the principles of sustainable developmen...

Many of the human activities are hard to measure. Nevertheless, the development of human society can be captured by statistical data and indicators. There exist differences in quality of life amongst European countries, especially evident in cross-border regions. This study assesses disparities of socioeconomic indicators, representing socioeconomi...

Článek je zaměřen na představení možností využití dat z dotazníkových šetření pro analýzu dopravního chování obyvatel města Olomouce a Ostravy. V článku jsou zmíněny možné metody zjišťování dat o pohybu obyvatel a dále je popsáno provedené dotazníkové šetření. Největší důraz je kladen na popis výsledků získaných pomocí statistického a prostorového...

Příspěvek popisuje počítačový model Urban Planner (nadstavba ArcGIS) umožňující vyhodnocovat územní potenciál a detekovat optimální plochy vhodné pro územní rozvoj. Model využívá jako hlavní metodu výpočtů multikriteriální analýzu, jejíž nastavení bylo stanoveno metodou podpory rozhodování AHP. Základním datovým vstupem jsou data územně analytickýc...

Urban planning in the Czech Republic is governed by the Act No. 183/2006 Coll., the Construction Act and the Ministry Decree No. 500/2006 Coll. These laws make it an obligation to create and maintain up to date Analytical Materials for Planning (Územně analytické podklady – UAP) containing four specific maps showing Territories Requiring Preservati...

The paper deals with the issue of movement of citizens of two main cities in the Czech Republic. The study is based on the questionnaire survey within which responses from more than 500 respondents in each city were collected. The questionnaire consisted of basic questions (information about respondents and their opinion) and of detailed informatio...

In this paper authors processed five satellite image of five different Middle-European cities taken by five different sensors. The aim of the paper was to find methods and approaches leading to evaluation and spatial data extraction from areas of interest. For this reason, data were firstly pre-processed using image fusion, mosaicking and segmentat...

In this paper authors processed five satellite image of five different Middle-European cities taken by five different sensors. The aim of the paper was to find methods and approaches leading to evaluation and spatial data extraction from areas of interest. For this reason, data were firstly pre-processed using image fusion, mosaicking and segmentat...

Due to the ongoing changes in settlement, it is becoming increasingly difficult to properly define rural and urban areas in Czechia. This delimitation problem has been intensively studied in Europe, including Czechia, for decades, but only the “crisp” rules have been set for this purpose. This is no longer sufficient because of substantial populati...

This paper describes the result of collaboration between the Department of Geoinformatics, the Regional Authority of the Olomouc Region and the City of Olomouc. The project was focused on the creation of a comprehensive methodology for the PAM maps. The preparation of the methodology was divided into several phases: Study of the currently used maps...

BURIAN, J., STASTNY, S., BRUS, J., PECHANEC, V., VOZENILEK, V. (2015): Urban Planner: model for optimal land use scenario modelling. Geografie, 120, No. 3, pp. 330-353. This paper describes a new approach to automatic optimal land use scenario modelling using the developed ArcGIS "Urban Planner" extension. The first part of the paper addresses the...

Due to the suburbanisation process, it is becoming more difficult to properly define rural and urban areas in the Czech Republic. This delimitation problem has been intensively studied in Europe, including the Czech Republic, for decades, but only so-called 'crisp' rules have been set for the categorisation of urban and rural. This is no longer sat...

The accessibility evaluation of public transport is based on commuting conditions in the Czech Republic, where still a significant part of jobs are organised in 2 or 3 work shifts. The usual indicators in such conditions suffer from time of day dependency. The analysis of time dependency is provided for commuting between Czech municipalities for se...

This research work assesses the impacts of tourism on the land cover in the Jesenik mountain region by comparing multi-temporal Landsat imagery (1991, 2001 and 2013) to describe the rate and extent of land cover change throughout the Jesenik mountain region. This was achieved through spectral classification of different land cover by assessing the...

In geography, boundaries of urban space and a city itself are usually defined by means of administrative boundaries. These, however, are defined in different ways and therefore very often ignore a real physical boundary of urban (built-up) space. Existing studies have defined city boundaries using remote sensing methods, which can in many cases be...

Geographical information system is very powerful tool to manage and analyses land use data. The integration of Geographic Information Systems and Artificial Neural Networks offers a mechanism to lower the cost of analysis of landscape change by reducing the amount of time spent interpreting data. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been proven t...

The landscape of the Czech Republic is exceedingly varied. The country consists also river basins and low mountains and belongs to the small and midsize countries in Europe (78,866 km2). Transport of people and cargo is based mainly on roads, rails, air and inland waterways in the Czech Republic. Based on statistical evaluation, the most important...

The paper deals with an increase of car traffic intensity within the area of the city of Olomouc and its neighbourhoods. The aim of the research was a temporal analysis of traffic volumes and the resulting changes compared with the spatial differentiation of suburbanization in the hinterland of the city of Olomouc. Input datasets were data traffic...

The aim of the paper is to handle of outgoing data of the Fire brigade Rescue Service in Olomouc (FSO) by spatial analysis to define accessibility zones. The research results in a cartographic synthesis of all analyzed outgoings. The main data sources were the records about outgoings (provided by FRSO), data about road networks, data about function...

Development in public transport is closely linked with trend of increasing of offered public services. This aims in competing with individual ca