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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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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global legal frameworks seek to ensure that benefits arising from the use of biological resources are shared fairly, yet their practical application—particularly where plant materials and Indigenous knowledge are involved—remains challenging. This article presents a case study modelling a pathway for ethical research and commercialisation of Indigenous
Jessica Cartwright +5 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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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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UCanWBGT: urban street canyon heat stress calculation for weather and climate models
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.This work introduces UCanWBGT, a new model to calculate wet‐bulb globe temperature in an urban environment, suitable for use with weather and climate model data. We present the model, then verify its performance against observations made in the streets of Paris during heatwave conditions.
Jonathan K. P. Shonk +4 more
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ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY OF OPENSTREETMAP DATA COMPLETENESS (CASE STUDY: CHISINAU CITY)
Journal of Engineering Science (Chişinău)In recent years, special attention has been paid to free and open geospatial data sources accessible to the whole world, which have benefits for all sectors of the national economy.
SÎRBU, Rodica
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Mapping River Bed Topography in Whitewater Rapids Using Bathymetric LiDAR
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bathymetric LiDAR captures river topography efficiently for clear and shallow water, but for mountain rivers, whitewater rapids still pose challenges. This study proposes a novel method to enable the extraction of bottom returns specifically in turbulent whitewater sections.
Jan Rhomberg‐Kauert +5 more
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Polish Cartographical Review, 2020 Nowadays volunteered geographic information (VGI) and collaborative mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) have gained popularity as they not only offer free data but also allow crowdsourced contributions.
Basaraner Melih
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A Force-Directed Approach for Offline GPS Trajectory Map Matching
, 2019 We present a novel algorithm to match GPS trajectories onto maps offline (in batch mode) using techniques borrowed from the field of force-directed graph drawing.
Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe +2 more
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, 2020 The health risks of coastal areas have long been researched, but the potential benefits for health are only recently being explored. The present study compared the general health of Belgian citizens a) according to the EU's definition of coastal ( 50 km)
De Henauw, Stefaan +9 more
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