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The latest advances in spatial information technology have led to the emergence of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) as enrichment to existing spatial data sources.
Tarek Sboui, Saida Aissi
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A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is geographic information collected by way of crowdsourcing. However, the distinction between VGI as an information product and the processes that create VGI is blurred.
Victoria Fast, Claus Rinner
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Recently, the use of electric vehicles in a power grid has been attracting attention. The success of vehicle-grid integration (VGI) requires the active participation of not only VGI service providers but also electric vehicle owners, utility companies ...
Yongma Moon +4 more
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Segmentation based traversing-agent approach for road width extraction from satellite images using volunteered geographic information [PDF]
We make use of the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) data to extract the total extent of the roads using remote sensing images. VGI data is often provided only as vector data represented by lines and not as full extent.
Prajowal Manandhar +2 more
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Genomic variations associated with attenuation in Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis vaccine strains [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) whole cell vaccines have been widely used tools in the control of Johne's disease in animals despite being unable to provide complete protection. Current vaccine strains derive from stocks
Bull, TJ +7 more
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A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms
Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged ...
Mohammad Ebrahim Poorazizi +2 more
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MusA: Using Indoor Positioning and Navigation to Enhance Cultural Experiences in a museum [PDF]
In recent years there has been a growing interest into the use of multimedia mobile guides in museum environments. Mobile devices have the capabilities to detect the user context and to provide pieces of information suitable to help visitors discovering ...
Alciatore +47 more
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Enhancing VGI application semantics by accounting for spatial bias
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is becoming an important source of geospatial big data that support many applications. The application semantics of VGI, i.e.
Guiming Zhang
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VGI BASED URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT [PDF]
Abstract. Recent advances in information technology have made geographic information system (GIS) a powerful and affordable tool for planning and decision making in various fields such as the public transportation. These technologies such as the social network (e.g.
F. Teymurian +3 more
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The Video Game Industry (VGI) is a highly innovative and rapidly growing sector that has become the dominant force in the entertainment industry, with significant economic and social implications.
Edward Goh, Omar Al-Tabbaa, Zaheer Khan
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