Journal of Spatial Science

Journal of Spatial Science is a subscription-based international journal of the spatial sciences, published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and the Mapping Sciences Institute of Australia.《空间科学杂志》是一份订阅制的国际空间科学期刊，由 Taylor & Francis 受澳大利亚测量与空间科学研究所与制图科学研究所的委托出版。

Its subject matter reaches from cartography, geodesy and geographic information science to hydrography, digital image analysis and photogrammetry, remote sensing and surveying, and the journal has been published under its present title since 2004.刊载题材自制图、大地测量与地理信息科学延伸至水文测量、数字图像分析与摄影测量、遥感与测量学，该刊以现题名刊行始于 2004 年。

Scope

• The journal presents itself as an international outlet publishing papers broadly across the spatial sciences, and it takes a subscription model rather than an open access one for the main body of its work.该刊自述为面向国际的空间科学刊物，广泛刊发该领域的论文，正文部分采用订阅模式而非开放获取模式。

• The fields it names are cartography, geodesy, geographic information science, hydrography, digital image analysis and photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying and related areas.它点名的学科有制图、大地测量学、地理信息科学、水文测量、数字图像分析与摄影测量、遥感、测量学及相关领域。

• Two classes of paper appear in it, research papers that carry new knowledge and professional papers written by practitioners of the discipline.刊内有两类论文，一类是贡献新知识的研究论文，另一类由行业从业者撰写的专业论文。

• Research papers, and the reviews that run with them, are peer reviewed and have to reach a minimum standard of adding to the knowledge base of one area of the spatial sciences.研究论文及其附带的综述都要经过同行评议，须达到为某一空间科学方向扩充知识基础的最低标准。

• The stated test is whether the work makes an empirical or a theoretical contribution that produces significant new outcomes.刊物给出的判断标准是研究是否作出经验性或理论性的贡献，并由此产生重要的新结果。

• Professional papers are expected from people working in the field, and they describe innovations in professional practice and the implementation of techniques in cartography, geodesy, geographic information science, hydrography, photogrammetry, remote sensing or surveying.专业论文通常来自一线从业者，描述专业实践中的创新，以及制图、大地测量学、地理信息科学、水文测量、摄影测量、遥感或测量学技术的具体实施。

• Recent volumes show how wide the field has become, with a paper on rendering web map tiles for high resolution display devices and another on navigation and point of interest data used in three urban planning tools.近年的卷次显示这一领域已相当宽泛，其中既有讨论高分辨率显示设备网页地图瓦片渲染的论文，也有研究导航与兴趣点数据在三种城市规划工具中应用的论文。

• Remote sensing work in the journal has covered mapping of winter wheat acreage and yield from multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar data, and estimation of foliar nitrogen in dry woodlands from Sentinel-2 imagery.该刊的遥感研究涵盖用多时相合成孔径雷达数据测算冬小麦种植面积与产量，以及用 Sentinel-2 影像估计干旱林地的叶片氮含量。

• Studies of urban climate ask how shrub dispersion can act as a passive means of thermal comfort in hot climates, with the resulting model used to redistribute existing buildings.城市气候方面的研究考察灌木的分散布局在炎热气候中充当被动舒适手段的方式，并借助所得模型重新分配既有建筑。

• Environmental applications run through the pages too, as when a workflow integrates toxicity priority index outputs into spatial analytic platforms so that flood related contamination can be traced.环境方面的应用同样贯穿各页，例如有工作流把毒性优先指数的输出并入空间分析平台，使洪水引发的污染得以追踪。

• Positioning papers examine the accuracy of single point GPS solutions in low latitude regions and the interpolation of Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System data over land.定位方面的论文考察低纬度地区单点 GPS 解算的精度，以及在陆地表面上对 Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 数据进行插值的方法。

• The editorial record of recent issues shows the remit stretching from agricultural yield estimation in winter wheat to the restoration of night time satellite imagery and the prediction of orbits for low earth orbit objects.近期的社论显示其选题跨度，从冬小麦的农业产量估算到卫星影像的夜间复原，再到低轨目标的轨道推算。

• The title serves as the scholarly outlet of the two Australian institutes that own it, and its audience holds surveyors, cartographers, hydrographers and remote sensing practitioners as well as researchers in universities.该刊是持有它的两家澳洲学会的学术园地，读者既有大学研究者，也有测量师、制图师、水文测量人员与遥感从业者。

History

• The present title began in 2004, when volume 49 number 1 opened with an editorial that set out the terms of the new journal.现题名始于 2004 年，第 49 卷第 1 期以一篇说明刊物宗旨的社论开篇。^[1]

• It was created in East Perth, Western Australia, and the national medical catalogue records the original imprint as the Spatial Science Institute of Australia together with the Mapping Sciences Institute.该刊创办于西澳大利亚州东珀斯，美国国家医学图书馆的目录把最初的出版著录记作由澳大利亚空间科学研究所与制图科学研究所发行。

• It grew out of two Australian titles that it absorbed at the change of name, the journal Australian Surveyor, which ran from 1928 to 2003, and Cartography, which ended in the same year.它承接了两份在更名时被合并的澳洲刊物，其一为 1928 年创刊、2003 年停刊的《Australian Surveyor》，其二为同一年终止的《Cartography》。

• The publisher has been Taylor & Francis throughout, and the Crossref deposit record names Informa UK as the publisher of every article registered under the title.出版方一直是 Taylor & Francis，Crossref 的著录记录把 Informa UK 列为该题名下每一篇文章的出版者。

• The journal's own editorials name the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and the Mapping Sciences Institute of Australia as the bodies behind it, and the latter keeps its postal address in Brisbane with divisions in the states.该刊自己的社论把测量与空间科学研究所与澳大利亚制图科学研究所列为背后的机构，后者的通信地址设在布里斯班，并在各州设有分部。

• The frequency rose from two issues a year to three in 2019, with cover dates in January, May and September, and the change was welcomed in an editorial written for the milestone.刊期在 2019 年由每年两期增至三期，封面日期分别为 1 月、5 月与 9 月，这一变化在为此节点撰写的社论中得到欢迎。

• From January 2023 the journal moved to a quarterly schedule of four issues a year, a step the editorial justified by strong submissions and by support from the two institutes and the publisher.自 2023 年 1 月起该刊改为每年四期的季刊节奏，社论以投稿充足以及两家学会与出版方的支持作为这一调整的理由。^[2]

• The volume numbering continues the run of the journals it replaced, and by the 2023 issues the journal had reached volume 68, so that volume 71 belongs to 2026.卷号沿续被它取代的那些刊物的序列，到 2023 年各期时该刊已出至第 68 卷，2026 年对应第 71 卷。

• A change of editor-in-chief was made in 2023, and the December editorial of that year recorded the handover and looked ahead to the twentieth year of the title.2023 年该刊更换了主编，同年 12 月的社论记录了这次交接，并展望该题名走过二十周年。^[3]

• The journal is a hybrid open access title inside the publisher's Open Select programme, so that an article can be opened up for a charge while authors who decline that option pay nothing for it.该刊是出版方 Open Select 计划下的混合开放获取刊物，作者可选择付费把文章开放，放弃这一选项则无需付费。

• Its citation performance has moved unevenly, with the impact factor standing at 1.981 in 2021, 1.84 in 2022, 1.0 in 2023, 1.7 in 2024 and 2.2 in 2025.该刊的引用表现起伏不定，影响因子在 2021 年为 1.981，2022 年为 1.84，2023 年为 1.0，2024 年为 1.7，2025 年为 2.2。

• Alongside the impact factor the publisher reports a five-year figure of 1.9, a CiteScore of 3.9 with a second quartile best ranking, a SNIP of 0.546, an SJR of 0.370 and usage of about forty-five thousand downloads and views a year, all for 2025.与影响因子并行，出版方报出的还有 1.9 的五年影响因子、3.9 的 CiteScore 与第二区最佳分区排名、0.546 的 SNIP、0.370 的 SJR，以及每年约四万五千次的下载与浏览量，均为 2025 年数值。

• The identifiers assigned to the title have stayed the same through that stretch, with the print number 1449-8596 and the electronic number 1836-5655 carrying every article since 2004.在上述时段内该题名的印刷版与电子版标识一直保持不变，印刷号 1449-8596 与电子号 1836-5655 自 2004 年起承载每一篇文章。

• Coverage in the national medical literature is partial, with PubMed listing the title on a selected citations basis only, and the journal citation report places the journal in the third quartile of physical geography and of remote sensing, with about nineteen articles a year.该刊在国家医学文献中的收录是局部的，PubMed 仅按选录文献的方式著录该刊，期刊引证报告把它列入自然地理与遥感两个类目的第三区，年发文约十九篇。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Robert Odolinski of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, who took the chair during the 2023 transition.主编是新西兰达尼丁奥塔哥大学的（Robert Odolinski），他在 2023 年的交接中接任此职。

• The board page lists twenty names as editors, and two of them also serve as review editors for the journal.编委页面列出二十位编辑，其中两位同时担任该刊的审稿编辑。

• An assistant editor sits alongside them, and the December 2023 editorial thanked the departing assistant editor and the editor-in-chief emeritus by name.编委之中另设助理编辑一职，2023 年 12 月的社论点名感谢了离任的助理编辑与荣休主编。

• The editors are drawn from Australia, China, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, the United States and Zimbabwe, with several sitting at the same Australian universities.编委来自澳大利亚、中国、香港、荷兰、新西兰、新加坡、美国与津巴布韦，多位任职于同一批澳洲高校。

• Australian affiliations on the board include the universities of Melbourne, Curtin, New South Wales, Queensland and RMIT, and the two editors from New Zealand are both at Otago.编委中的澳洲机构包括墨尔本大学、科廷大学、新南威尔士大学、昆士兰大学与皇家墨尔本理工大学，来自新西兰的两位编辑均在奥塔哥大学。

• Among the overseas members sit Fuzhou University, Central South University, Yunnan Normal University, the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, the University of Twente, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the National University of Singapore and the University of Zimbabwe.海外编委包括福州大学、中南大学、云南师范大学、精密测量科学与技术创新研究院、德克萨斯 A&M 大学科珀斯克里斯特分校、特温特大学、香港理工大学、新加坡国立大学与津巴布韦大学。

• Their research interests cover the fields the journal publishes in, among them photogrammetry, remote sensing, geodesy, hydrography, spatial data infrastructure and the analysis of cadastral data.他们的研究兴趣覆盖该刊所刊的领域，涵盖摄影测量、遥感、大地测量学、水文测量、空间数据基础设施与地籍数据分析。

• Manuscripts are screened by an editor before they go out, and every research and review paper is then put through double anonymized refereeing.稿件先由编辑初筛，之后每篇研究论文与综述都进入双盲评审环节。

• The board also marks an annual best research paper award, judged on the peer reviewed research and review papers published in the twelve months from the first of July to the thirtieth of June.编委还评选年度最佳研究论文奖，评审范围为 7 月 1 日至次年 6 月 30 日这一十二个月内刊出的经同行评议的研究论文与综述。

• The publisher reports that a first decision takes thirty days on average, sixty-one days to a first post-review decision, and eighteen days from acceptance to online publication.出版方报出的时长为首次决定平均三十天，外审后首次决定六十一天，录用至在线发表十八天。

• Only about five per cent of the manuscripts that reached a final decision in the past year were accepted, which tells authors how selective the journal is.上一年度得到最终决定的稿件中约有百分之五被录用，作者由此可知该刊取舍相当严格。

• Subscription business is handled by the publisher's customer services in Colchester, Essex, while the editorial work is carried out by the board named on the same page.订阅业务由设在埃塞克斯郡科尔切斯特的出版方客服部门处理，编辑事务则由同一页面列出的编委承担。