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Several methods have been proposed to obtain land use maps of urban areas, and these can be classified into two categories: remote sensing methods and social sensing methods. However, remote sensing and social sensing approaches have specific disadvantages regarding the description of social and physical features, respectively. Therefore, an appropriate fusion strategy is vital for large-area land use mapping. To address this issue, we propose an efficient land use mapping method that combines remote sensing imagery (RSI) and mobile phone positioning data (MPPD) for large areas. We implemented this method in two steps. First, a support vector machine was adopted to classify the RSI and MPPD. Then, the two classification results were fused using a decision fusion strategy to generate the land use map. The proposed method was applied to a case study of the central area of Beijing. The experimental results show that the proposed method improved classification accuracy compared with that achieved using MPPD alone, validating the efficacy of this new approach for identifying land use. Based on the land use map and MPPD data, activity density in key zones during daytime and nighttime was analyzed to illustrate the volume and variation of people working and living across different regions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10030446","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,12]],"date-time":"2018-03-12T13:13:48Z","timestamp":1520860428000},"page":"446","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":66,"title":["Urban Land Use Mapping by Combining Remote Sensing Imagery and Mobile Phone Positioning Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2721-7456","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuanxin","family":"Jia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Ge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0685-4897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feng","family":"Ling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"}]},{"given":"Xian","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5333-3827","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianghao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 China"}]},{"given":"Le","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9764-9911","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuehong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8285-8446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaodong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1377","DOI":"10.14358\/PERS.69.12.1377","article-title":"Mapping urban areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely sensed data","volume":"69","author":"Schneider","year":"2003","journal-title":"Photogramm. 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