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Using VGI and Social Media Data to Understand Urban Green Space: A Narrative Literature Review

open access: yesISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2021
Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) and social media can provide information about real-time perceptions, attitudes and behaviours in urban green space (UGS). This paper reviews the use of VGI and social media data in research examining UGS.
N. Cui   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Enhancing DSS Exploitation Based on VGI Quality Assessment: Conceptual Framework and Experimental Evaluation

open access: yesSystems, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the usefulness of VGI from Waze for the reporting of flash floods

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) to supplement disaster risk management systems, including forecasting, risk assessment, and disaster recovery, is increasingly popular.
Chris Lowrie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IT Services and Crowdsourcing in Support of the Hellenic Cadastre: Advanced Citizen Participation and Crowdsourcing in the Official Property Registration Process

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Greece is one of the few European countries that has not yet a fully operating Cadastre at national coverage. Cadastral surveying and property registration have been completed only for about 8% of the Greek territory, which includes about 18% of the ...
George Mourafetis, Chryssy Potsiou
doaj   +1 more source

Extracting Typhoon Disaster Information from VGI Based on Machine Learning

open access: goldJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019
The southeastern coast of China suffers many typhoon disasters every year, causing huge casualties and economic losses. In addition, collecting statistics on typhoon disaster situations is hard work for the government.
Yu Jiang   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Assuring the quality of VGI on land use and land cover: experiences and learnings from the LandSense project

open access: yesGeo-Spatial Information Science, 2022
The potential of citizens as a source of geographical information has been recognized for many years. Such activity has grown recently due to the proliferation of inexpensive location aware devices and an ability to share data over the internet. Recently,
G. Foody   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Economic Valuation of Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) in a Demand Response Application from Each Stakeholder’s Perspective

open access: yesEnergies, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Segmentation based traversing-agent approach for road width extraction from satellite images using volunteered geographic information [PDF]

open access: yesApplied 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information

open access: yesISPRS 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
doaj   +1 more source

VGI and Satellite Imagery Integration for Crisis Mapping of Flood Events

open access: yesISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2022
Timely mapping of flooded areas is critical to several emergency management tasks including response and recovery activities. In fact, flood crisis maps embed key information for an effective response to the natural disaster by delineating its spatial ...
A. Vavassori   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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