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Where 2.0 Australia’s Environment? Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information, and Citizens Acting as Sensors for Environmental Sustainability

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014
Crowdsourcing, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and citizens acting as sensors are currently being used in Australia via GeoWeb 2.0 applications for environmental sustainability purposes.
Alister Clark
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Place and city: Operationalizing sense of place and social capital in the urban context

Transactions in GIS, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 503-520, June 2017., 2017
Abstract The academic interest in social concepts in city contexts, such as sense of place and social capital, has been growing in the last decades. We present a systematic literature review that confirms the strong relationship between sense of place and social capital, from a social sciences point‐of‐view.
Albert Acedo, Marco Painho, Sven Casteleyn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain: Contributions of Volunteered Geographic Information to Community Disaster Resilience

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018
The adoption of location-based information sharing technologies, and the emergence of volunteered geographic information (VGI), has seen changes to community involvement in disaster management.
Billy Tusker Haworth, Eleanor Bruce, Joshua Whittaker, Róisín Read   +3 more
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Comparison of Effects of Using Geosynthetics and Lime Stabilization to Increase Bearing Capacity of Unpaved Road Subgrade

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016
So many soil improvement methods have been developed in order to increase bearing capacity of superstructure of the road to be constructed on the soft clayey road base soils, decrease settlements, and increase other strength specifications (CBR, k, MR values, etc.).
Erhan Burak Pancar, Muhammet Vefa Akpınar, Jianxi Zhu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

eStorys: A visual storyboard system supporting back-channel communication for emergencies [PDF]

, 2011
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Journal of Visual Languages & Computing. The published article is available from the link below.
A. Bellucci, A. Malizia, Ahern, Aufaure, Bellucci, Boyd, Carver, Chin, Currion, Dynes, Fischer, Gillmor, Haddow, I. Aedo, Kennedy, Kirakowski, Lewis, Lin, Linden, Liu, P. Diaz, Palen, Preece, S. Levialdi, Schafer, Shneiderman, Tierney, Toyama, Voisard   +28 more
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Les représentations de la favela dans le geoweb de Rio de Janeiro [PDF]

, 2016
International audienceWhile the Geoweb occupies a place of increasing importance in geographical research, it has still not been the subject of extensive studies about the role it plays in the qualification and representation of specific territories like
Johan Desbonnet, Pierre Gautreau
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Virtual Interpretation of Earth Web-Interface Tool (VIEW-IT) for Collecting Land-Use/Land-Cover Reference Data

Remote Sensing, 2011
Web-based applications that integrate geospatial information, or the geoweb, offer exciting opportunities for remote sensing science. One such application is a Web‑based system for automating the collection of reference data for producing and verifying ...
Matthew L. Clark, T. Mitchell Aide
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Social Desktop [PDF]

, 2010
Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá tématem sociálních sítí a jejich vlivem na každodenní používaní osobního počítače. Představuje projekt KDE Silk, který se snaží webové služby do prostředí pracovní plochy integrovat a práci nejen se sociálními sítěmi ...
Schiffer, Peter
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A cloud‐based solution for trustless indigenous data sovereignty: Protecting Māori biodiversity management data in Aotearoa New Zealand

Transactions in GIS, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 836-857, June 2024.
Abstract Indigenous peoples should be able to govern data about themselves, their territories, resources, and ways of life, collected by themselves or others. However, the progressive use of cloud computing for the geoweb raises data security and privacy concerns.
Pankajeshwara Sharma, Michael Martin, David Swanlund, Cecilia Latham, Dean Anderson, Waitangi Wood   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A WEB OF CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. NEW RESEARCH AND PRAXIS IN GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION IN VIEW OF CURRENT WEB TECHNOLOGIES

European Journal of Geography, 2012
Current web technologies have invaded people’s lifeworld. With mobile devices information can be obtained independently from space and time and works as an omnipresent layer that augments people’s constructions of the world permanently.
Inga GRYL
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