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L'importante ruolo degli open data nelle emergenze
GEOmedia, 2016 The important role of open data in emergencies During emergencies, the geographic information plays a very important and delicate role becoming the main tool to understand what happened and to take decisions.
Maurizio Napolitano
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500 Cities Project: Local Data for Better Health 2014 [PDF]
, 2016 The 500 Cities Project-Local Data for Better Health-is a collaboration among the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the CDC Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose purpose is to provide high quality small area estimates ...
Center for Disease Control and Prevention +1 more
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An Intelligent Advisor for City Traffic Policies [PDF]
, 2018 Nowadays, city streets are populated not only by private vehicles but also by public transport, fleets of workers, and deliveries. Since each vehicle class has a maximum cargo capacity, we study in this article how authorities could improve the road ...
A Millard-Ball +10 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Road traffic noise is a pervasive environmental pollutant that negatively affects wildlife globally. Despite growing research, quantifying the spatial extent of noise impacts remains underdeveloped. Soundscape mapping from social sciences and engineering literature offers a useful yet rarely implemented tool to depict noise impact distances ...
Yael Lehnardt +3 more
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Maximizing the value of a volunteer: A novel method for prioritizing humanitarian VGI activities
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2023 As a consequence of their reliance on a scarce volunteer resource, humanitarian mapping organizations must prioritize their mapping activities. For mapping in anticipation of a crisis or mapping in support of long-term crises, the only method available ...
Kirsty Watkinson +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract There are growing societal expectations that forests are managed for multiple benefits including carbon storage, biodiversity, health and recreation. Consequently, forest managers are increasingly expected to consider how external factors, including climate change, affect the future of their forests and the wider public benefits they provide ...
Louise Sing +4 more
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Identifying urban land use social functional units: a case study using OSM data
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2021 Urban land use is always the central focus of urban planners and policymakers when pursuing urban sustainable development. Currently, many studies have explored urban land use using satellite data, but few of them can identify the social function of land
Zhen Liu
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecoregions are often defined based on homogeneous biophysical and ecological conditions and are optimal spatial units for designing conservation strategies. However, transboundary ecoregions such as the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest (APAF) experience asymmetrical conservation outcomes, understood here as cross‐border differences, resulting from ...
Lía Montti +16 more
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Build an app and they will come? Lessons learnt from trialling the GetThereBus app in rural communities [PDF]
, 2017 Acknowledgements The research described here was supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1.Peer ...
Beecroft, Mark +7 more
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osmar: OpenStreetMap and R [PDF]
The R Journal, 2013 OpenStreetMap provides freely accessible and editable geographic data. The osmar package smoothly integrates the OpenStreetMap project into the R ecosystem. The osmar package provides infrastructure to access OpenStreetMap data from different sources, to enable working with the OSM data in the familiar R idiom, and to convert the data into objects ...
Eugster, Manuel J., Schlesinger, Thomas
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