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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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Geo-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
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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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ISPRS 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
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Genomic variations associated with attenuation in Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis vaccine strains [PDF]
, 2013 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
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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MusA: Using Indoor Positioning and Navigation to Enhance Cultural Experiences in a museum [PDF]
, 2013 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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A Spatio-Temporal VGI Model Considering Trust-Related Information
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016 Over the past several years, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has expanded rapidly. VGI collection has been proven to serve as a highly successful means of acquiring timely and detailed global spatial data.
Yijiang Zhao +3 more
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RegNet: a neural network model for predicting regional desirability with VGI data
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2021 Volunteered geographic information can be used to predict regional desirability. A common challenge regarding previous works is that intuitive empirical models, which are inaccurate and bring in perceptual bias, are traditionally used to predict regional
W. Shi +3 more
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