Soheil Sabri

University of Central Florida | UCF · School of Modeling Simulation and Training

The Unumherin community in Nigeria’s Niger Delta is home to coastal marine polluted zones, and this research examines the radioactivity distributions and biohazard in the coastal environment. The activity concentrations of ⁴⁰K, ²³⁸U, ²³²Th, as well as the outdoor dose rate of contaminated coastlines were measured using a calibrated RS-125 Gamma-Spe...

Over the period May to July 2022, the SSSI Spatial Digital Twin Special Interest Group (SDT-SIG) conducted an industry survey on geospatial standards for spatial digital twins (SDT). The survey aimed to form an understanding of how the Australian spatial community utilises spatial standards in the development and delivery of digital twin products a...

Accelerating challenges to cities and communities have triggered a growing interest in the assessment of resilience and sustainability of future developments. For this purpose, many countries have adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for sustainable development goals (SDGs), in which resilience has been incorporated as a component of sustainabil...

Despite the advancements in Planning Support Systems (PSS), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and multi-dimensional building and city modelling, we found that they are not within the factual urban planning and design practice and often do not generate expected knowledge and wisdom. In addition, there is limited application of computational ge...

Landscape architects and urban designers are often tasked with decision-making about implementation of flood moderating measures in urban renewal projects. These decisions require consideration of complex, interdependent existing and proposed infrastructure, and must be informed by data and modelling from multiple disciplines such as hydrologists,...

The increasing trend of urbanization has challenged the traditional ways of urban planning, design, and management [...]

The detection of informal settlements is the first step in planning and upgrading deprived areas in order to leave no one behind in SDGs. Very High-Resolution satellite images (VHR), have been extensively used for this purpose. However, as a cost-prohibitive data source, VHR might not be available to all, particularly nations that are home to many...

The utilization of urban underground space (UUS) offers an effective solution to urban problems but may also negatively affect urban development. Therefore, UUS development needs better concerted guidelines to coordinate various urban systems and the multiple components of the underground world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which should be...

Despite a great deal of attention paid to smart cities, the conceptual framework for understanding them has been partial at best. This chapter establishes a holistic framework to define and evaluate smart cities through three core objectives that any city wants to improve—productivity, sustainability, and livability. Although smartness includes a w...

This chapter is about smart city strategies in Dubai, which emphasizes social welfare and happiness as a major outcome. Through a desktop research method, the chapter adopts three stages of formalization, change process, and social outcomes of social innovation to examine Smart Dubai's strategic development reports and literature to understand its...

With the global order today undergoing rapid transition, Singapore endeavors to harness data, information and communication technologies (ICT), and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve living, create economic opportunities, and build closer communities in its transformation toward a Smart Nation. Singapore’s urban built environment has become mo...

This chapter provides an introduction to the book, in which several cases of technological innovation and social innovation initiatives are discussed. It outlines the book’s organization and calls for a comprehensive understanding of the drivers, actors, and outcomes of smart city initiatives. As such, Chapter 2 develops a framework to examine city...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a framework comprising 231 indicators to assess the level of sustainable development in all countries. However, the framework is criticised for lacking an inclusive evaluation of resilience despite accepting it as a component of sustainability. Many resilience indica...

The detection of spatial clusters and outliers is critical to a number of spatial data analysis techniques. Many techniques embed spatial clustering components with the aim of exploring spatial variability and patterns in a data set, caused by the spatial association that generally affects most spatial data. A frontier challenge in spatial data ana...

One of the ubiquitous human behaviours observed in natural disasters and humanitarian crisis is irrational stockpiling (also known as hoarding or panic buying). Limited, distorted and exaggerated information during crisis disturbs people's judgement and results in aberrant actions which can be explained with economics and psychology theories. The o...

One of the ubiquitous human behaviours observed in natural disasters and humanitarian crisis is irrational stockpiling (also known as hoarding or panic buying). Limited, distorted and exaggerated information during crisis disturbs people’s judgement and results in aberrant actions which can be explained with economics and psychology theories. The o...

At the present moment there are unprecedented amounts of urban data being created and stored. This data ranges from census data that is collected periodically, to satellite imagery that is more frequently updated, to transportation stream data that is collected and processed in real-time. Current technological innovations have the potential to enab...

This paper examines capabilities of a new Spatial Data Infrastructure called Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure (UADI), through deriving and evaluating transport sustainability indicators. The UADI was developed in Australia to support multi-disciplinary and cross-jurisdictional analytics to overcome the challenges related to model generalisation,...

New urban strategies encourage compact city and higher density urban development due to unprecedented city growth and rapid urbanisation. This has led to greater attention to multi-dimensional representation, modelling and analytics of urban settings among urban planners, decision makers, and researchers. Nowadays, urban planning and urban design p...

Underground space has been widely used in densely populated cities across the globe, and is attracting increasing attention among academics and practitioners toward further alleviating land use pressure, improving urban resilience and the quality of life. However, few attempts have been made to probe the potential threats posed by underground space...

School catchment has significant impacts on many urban planning and so-cio-economic aspects such as social infrastructure accessibility, livability, community health and wellbeing, and housing affordability. It is a challenging task for governments to strategically plan school catchments with a vision that not only supports the current school capac...

Urbanization is progressing rapidly, while problems raised by climate change are occurring across the globe. Cities are at the center of both of the two tendencies therefore, low carbon or zero carbon cities are being promoted. Urban underground space (UUS) is a key component in the process of urbanization and plays a significant role in creating l...

Multi-dimensional representation of urban settings has received a great deal of attention among urban planners, policy makers, and urban scholars. This is due to the fact that cities grow vertically and new urbanism strategies encourage higher density and compact city development. Advancements in computer technology and multi-dimensional geospatial...

The 3D Tiles specification, created by Cesium, is designed for streaming massive heterogeneous three-dimensional (3D) geospatial datasets online using WebGL technology. The program has prevailed in the WebGIS community due to its ability to visualise, interact, and style 3D objects for various scenarios, such as 3D cities, indoor environments, and...

Data heterogeneity is one of the most challenging problems in urban data analytics. When obtained from various providers or custodians, datasets for the same domain themes may dramatically differ in formats due to many reasons such as historical legacies, changing definitions or standards across jurisdictions etc. It hinders urban analysts and rese...

Most existing accessibility analysis tools are ad-hoc systems with predetermined geographic coverage, spatial resolution, methodology and indicators, which are difficult to change without involving the original developers. This might partially explain why accessibility largely remains in the hands of academics and there is low uptake among transpor...

Floods, as the most common and costliest natural disaster around the globe, have adverse impacts on buildings which are considered as major contributors to the overall economic damage. With emphasis on risk management methods for reducing the risks to structures and people, estimating damage from potential flood events becomes an important task for...

Floods, as the most common and costliest natural disaster around the globe, have adverse impacts on buildings which are considered as major contributors to the overall economic damage. With emphasis on risk management methods for reducing the risks to structures and people, estimating damage from potential flood events becomes an important task for...

The inability of the public sector to independently meet the increasing demand for infrastructure and services has prompted many governments to adopt Public-private partnership (PPP) as an alternative strategy. In worldwide practices, however, there are mixed results and controversy in the application of PPP model. The Public-private partnership ha...

The inability of the public sector to independently meet the increasing demand for infrastructure and services has prompted many governments to adopt Public-private partnership (PPP) as an alternative strategy. In worldwide practices, however, there are mixed results and controversy in the application of PPP model. The Public-private partnership ha...

High density residential development in metropolitan Melbourne, where contradictory imperatives of neighbourhood character and urban intensification play important roles, remains an uncertain practice. One key issue for plan imple-mentation is the lack of consistency between authorities, developers and the community in interpreting the standards, d...

Floods are the most common and costliest natural disasters around the globe. The severity of the recent events (e.g. 2010/2013 Queensland floods) and the predicted increase in the frequency and intensity of future floods have highlighted the need for their effective management levels and establishing flood resilience in the society. Buildings, on t...

The long-term planning approach with its central aim of changing the urban form using zoning regulations and improving transportation may no longer be the only conceivable solution. Participants in planning and land development processes formulating plans today are predominantly land developers, entrepreneurs, and landlords. However, community grou...

A practice of adopting In-situ concrete (ISC) construction method for wet areas in pre-cast concrete (PC) buildings to overcome leakage problem is a setback for full IBS adoption. Various options explored while developing ideal solution only to discover the answer is possible within the existing parameters of IBS. The proposal adopts composite cons...

Major urban renewal programs including higher density and infill developments are being planned in brownfield and greyfield areas of the cities. These have increased the challenges in urban planning and management tasks. To address the challenges multi-dimensional and multi-spatial data is required to support city planners and policy-makers. There...

Gentrification is generally defined as the transformation of a working class living in the central city into middle-upper class society. It has both positive and negative consequences. Gentrification caused loses of affordable home, however, it is also beneficial because it rejuvenates the tax base as well stimulates mixed income. Question arises w...

Evaluating the plan implementation is essential not only to ensure the legitimacy of planning effort but also to increase stakeholder’s confidence in the plans that are constantly being formulated. Compared to other aspects of planning, the relationship between planning and implementation has been less studied mostly because of the complex processe...

Malaysia is currently enjoying an overhang of housing supply. The focus is gradually shifting from providing just a mere shelter to something more socially. Terrace row housing estates in Malaysia is the major prototype of housing in the country. Pedestrian activities are catalyst to social interaction, but have been ignored in this model. During t...

Spatial statistics have been widely used in epidemiology studies in order to investigate and monitor the outbreak in endemic area. However, there is less application of spatial statistics in the study on built environment and diseases outbreak. It is significant to conduct such a study since non-communicable diseases have been rising over past four...

There is a worldwide concern about increasing non-communicable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma and depression related to obesity in urban population. The built environment has an important role to support human health. Characteristics of the built environment can be modified to influence and facilitate or hinder public heal...

One of the most significant natural disasters in South-east Asia, is flooding. In Malaysia, for instance, Iskandar Malaysia region as a rapid urbanizing context located in southern peninsula has been affected by several flood events during last decade. Severe rainfall, natural situation, new unplanned developments and insufficient drainage systems...

Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, West Africa, is underlain by Precambrian basement rocks consisting mainly of porphyroblastic gneisses, granitic-gneisses, migmatitic gneisses, amphibolites, Pan-African granites and undifferentiated schists. The geology of Abuja, therefore, makes the groundwater conditions in the area very unpredictable. Geophysi...

Selecting the most suitable landfill site is important to prevent any negative ecological and socio-economic effects. Spatial analysis takes into consideration local environmental regulations and adopted acceptance criteria that are important considerations in site selection. This paper is a case study to determine the suitability of an inter-munic...

A Geospatial Technology-based Group Analytic Hierarchy Process (GAHP) was carried out to forecast the likely flooded areas based on a total number of five set of criteria/factors believed to be influencing flood generation in the study area. The GAHP is based on two categories of experts (hydrologists and geologists). Priority weights were assigned...

Evaluating plan implementation is essential not only to ensure the legitimacy of planning effort but also to increase stakeholder's confidence in the plans that are constantly being formulated. Compared to other aspects of planning, the relationship between planning and implementation has been less studied mostly because of the complex processes an...

There are many examples of GIS application in planning such as urban land-use planning, cultural heritage conservation, coastal zone management, and the design of structure plans for sustainable economic development. All these applications are dealing with systems in which natural and human factors are interconnected. But an issue that should be ad...

Inhabitants in Dei-Dei area of Abuja consume groundwater that recharges from different lithologic units of subsurface structures due to inadequate public water supply. The water is consumed untreated and during drilling, it cuts across so many rock formations, to extents constitute radioactive elements which are to be evaluated. Vertical Electric S...

by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Selection and peer review under responsibility of Asia-Pacifi c Chemical, Abstract Inhabitants in Dei-Dei area of Abuja consume groundwater that recharges from different lithologic units of subsurface structures due to...

Meningococcal meningitis is an airborne disease that has been a threat to human life for over a century now. This study aims to describe the spatiotemporal spread of Meningococcal meningitis in the population residing in Kaduna metropolis. All the reported cases (suspected and confirmed) within the Kaduna metropolis from 2007 to 2011 were collected...

Assessing the relationship between planning and implementation is often hampered by insufficient methodologies, deficiencies in plans' contents and resource limitations. There is however the need to review the efficacy of plans and degree of plan implementation to indicate whether plans achieved their goals in guaranteeing sustainable development o...

The study of activity concentration of 232Th, 238U and 40K of rock samples from site one (S1L1-S1L11, 70 m) and Site two (S2L1-S2L9, 60 m) boreholes in Dei-Dei and Kubwa were presented and the first time in the region to be compared. Activity concentrations were analysed using a high resolution co-axial HPGe gamma ray spectrometer system. The activ...

One of the primary aims of transit-oriented development (TOD) is to reduce auto dependency, especially for low-income as well as senior residents. This study aims at providing some guiding principles for development of affordable housing with respect to TOD concept. As such, the study employed an index called Affordability Index (AI) and adapted fo...

In urban growth processes, urbanisation is highly influenced by economic growth which triggers the dynamics of economic agents and land uses. This is consisted of complex subsystems which need sophisticated methods like agent-based modelling and simulation to understand the pattern, behaviour and scale of multiple actors. The objective of this pape...

One of the primary aims of transit-oriented development (TOD) is to reduce auto dependency, especially for low-income as well as senior residents. This study aims at providing some guiding principles for development of affordable housing with respect to TOD concept. As such, the study employed an index called Affordability Index (AI) and adapted fo...

In urban growth processes, urbanisation is highly influenced by economic growth which triggers the dynamics of economic agents and land uses. This is consisted of complex subsystems which need sophisticated methods like agent-based modelling and simulation to understand the pattern, behaviour and scale of multiple actors. The objective of this pape...

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the suitability of different sites as locations for obtaining underground water for consumption. The analysis of 238U, 232Th and 40K from rock samples from each layer of borehole at a depth of ∼50 m at Site A borehole, S3L1–S3L6 in Gosa and 40 m at Site B borehole, S4L1–S4L5 in Lugbe, Abuja, north central...

The purpose of this study is to examine and review the various applications of GIS and remote sensing tools in flood disaster management as opposed to the conventional means of recording the hydrological parameters, which in many cases failed to capture an extreme event. In the recent years, GIS along with remote sensing has become the key tools in...

This paper presents a conceptual framework for geosimulation of the New-build gentrification process in an integrated approach. The combination of Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) and Geographic Automata Systems (GAS) facilitates to translate the expert Knowledge into model rules. Analytic Network Process (ANP) is considered as MCE that addresses th...

Optimal locations for public facilities such as public parks are significant issues in the urban planning of Larkana city. Therefore, specifically, Larkana city of Pakistan is selected as the study area where the land suitability model was applied to determine suitable land for public parks. This study was carried out within the framework of an Ana...

The task of synthesizing enormous amou