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Systems, 2023 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 Shared Perspective for PGIS and VGI [PDF]
The Cartographic Journal, 2016 This paper reviews persistent principles of participation processes. On the basis of a review of recent interrogations of the (Public) Participatory Geographic Information Systems (P)PGIS and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) approaches, a summary of five prevailing principles in participatory spatial information handling is presented.
Verplanke, J +4 more
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A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014 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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Energies, 2021 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]
Applied Computing and Informatics, 2021 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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A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015 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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Highlighting Current Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a growing area of research. This Special Issue aims to capture the main trends in VGI research based on 16 original papers, and distinguishes between two main areas, i.e., those that deal with the ...
David Jonietz +3 more
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Challenges in VGI for scientific projects [PDF]
, 2016 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a recent trend that has been successfully used in order to collect and share geographic information. This method is of interest for scientists who are in need of data and who want to get people involved in their cause.
Ingensand, Jens +6 more
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Telematics and Informatics Reports, 2023 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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A Semantic Expansion Model for VGI Retrieval [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a representative volunteered geographic information (VGI) project. However, there have been difficulties in retrieving spatial information from OSM. Ontology is an effective knowledge organization and representation method that is often used to enrich the search capabilities of search systems.
Sun, Xia, Li, Shen, Liu
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