About the Authors

Manzhu Yu

Affiliation NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center and Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America

Chaowei Yang

cyang3@gmu.edu

Affiliation NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center and Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CY MY. Formal analysis: CY MY. Funding acquisition: CY. Methodology: MY CY. Project administration: CY. Software: MY. Supervision: CY. Validation: MY CY. Visualization: MY. Writing – original draft: MY CY. Writing – review & editing: CY MY.