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A Trust-based Recruitment Framework for Multi-hop Social Participatory Sensing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The idea of social participatory sensing provides a substrate to benefit from friendship relations in recruiting a critical mass of participants willing to attend in a sensing campaign.
Amintoosi, Haleh, Kanhere, Salil S.
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The Combined Use of Remote Sensing and Social Sensing Data in Fine-Grained Urban Land Use Mapping: A Case Study in Beijing, China

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2017
In light of the need for fine-grained, accurate, and timely urban land use information, a per-field classification approach was proposed in this paper to automatically map fine-grained urban land use in a study area within Haidian District, Beijing ...
Yuan Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Sensing for Urban Land Use Identification

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
The utilization of urban land use maps can reveal the patterns of human behavior through the extraction of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of urban land use.
Adindha Surya Anugraha   +2 more
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Urban Functional Zone Mapping With a Bibranch Neural Network via Fusing Remote Sensing and Social Sensing Data

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021
Urban functional zones (UFZs) are the urban spaces divided by various functional activities and are the basic units of daily human activities. UFZ mapping, which identifies the UFZ categories in different spatial areas of a city, is of considerable ...
Runyu Fan   +3 more
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Using Social Media for Attendees Density Estimation in City-Scale Events

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2018
City-scale events attract large amounts of attendees in temporarily re-purposed urban environments. In this setting, the real-time measurement of the density of attendees stationing in-or moving through-the event terrain is central to applications, such ...
V. X. Gong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of Barriers to Mobility in the Smart City Using Twitter

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
We present a system that analyzes data extracted from the microbloging site Twitter to detect the occurrence of events and obstacles that can affect pedestrian mobility, with a special focus on people with impaired mobility.
Mario Sanchez-Avila   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor.
Barnden, John, Zhang, Li
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Social interactions in the Burkholderia cepacia complex : biofilms and quorum sensing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria are opportunistic pathogens that cause respiratory tract infections in susceptible patients, mainly people with cystic fibrosis. There is convincing evidence that B.
Coenye, Tom
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Congregational bonding social capital and psychological type : an empirical enquiry among Australian churchgoers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study explores the variation in levels of bonding social capital experienced by individual churchgoers, drawing on data generated by the Australian National Church Life Survey, and employing a five-item measure of church-related bonding social ...
Baker C   +27 more
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Crowd‐sourced observations for short‐range numerical weather prediction: Report from EWGLAM/SRNWP Meeting 2019

open access: yesAtmospheric Science Letters, 2021
Crowd‐sourced observations (CSO) offer great potential for numerical weather prediction (NWP). This paper offers a synthesis of progress, challenges and opportunities in this area based on a special session of the EWGLAM Meeting in 2019, concentrating on
Kasper S. Hintz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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