用卫星图像生成全球城市通勤流动数据,无需调查即可高精度还原人口移动模式。
Satellites Reveal Mobility: A Commuting Origin-destination Flow Generator for Global Cities
- 基于卫星影像与视觉语言模型提取城市语义特征,结合人口数据建模区域表示。
- 在四大洲六大城市测试中,生成的通勤流与真实数据相关性超98%。
- 工具开源,可自动完成从数据获取到流动生成全流程,适合城市规划与交通研究者使用。
通勤起止点(OD)流动数据反映了市民日常人口移动,对全球城市的可持续发展至关重要。然而,由于出行调查成本高昂且涉及隐私问题,获取此类数据极具挑战。令人惊讶的是,我们发现全球公开的卫星影像蕴含丰富的城市语义信号,其表达能力超过传统多源难获取的城市社会经济、经济、土地利用和兴趣点数据的98%。这启发我们设计了一种新型数据生成器GlODGen,可为任意感兴趣城市生成OD流动数据。具体而言,GlODGen首先利用视觉-语言地理基础模型从卫星影像中提取与人类移动相关的城市语义特征,再结合人口数据形成区域级表征,并通过图扩散模型生成OD流动。在四大洲六个代表性城市的广泛实验表明,GlODGen在不同大陆多样化的城市环境中具有极强泛化能力,生成的流动数据与现实世界数据高度一致。我们已将GlODGen实现为自动化工具,无缝集成数据采集与清洗、城市语义特征提取及OD流动生成全过程,代码已发布于https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/generate-od-pubtools。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Commuting Origin-destination~(OD) flows, capturing daily population mobility of citizens, are vital for sustainable development across cities around the world. However, it is challenging to obtain the data due to the high cost of travel surveys and privacy concerns. Surprisingly, we find that satellite imagery, publicly available across the globe, contains rich urban semantic signals to support high-quality OD flow generation, with over 98\% expressiveness of traditional multisource hard-to-collect urban sociodemographic, economics, land use, and point of interest data. This inspires us to design a novel data generator, GlODGen, which can generate OD flow data for any cities of interest around the world. Specifically, GlODGen first leverages Vision-Language Geo-Foundation Models to extract urban semantic signals related to human mobility from satellite imagery. These features are then combined with population data to form region-level representations, which are used to generate OD flows via graph diffusion models. Extensive experiments on 4 continents and 6 representative cities show that GlODGen has great generalizability across diverse urban environments on different continents and can generate OD flow data for global cities highly consistent with real-world mobility data. We implement GlODGen as an automated tool, seamlessly integrating data acquisition and curation, urban semantic feature extraction, and OD flow generation together. It has been released at https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/generate-od-pubtools.
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