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Highlighting Current Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
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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Volunteered and crowdsourced geographic information: the OpenStreetMap project [PDF]
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2020 Advancements in technology over the last two decades have changed how spatial data are created and used. In particular, in the last decade, volunteered geographic information (VGI), i.e., the crowdsourcing of geographic information, has revolutionized ...
Michela Bertolotto +2 more
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Estimating Traffic Disruption Patterns with Volunteered Geographic Information. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 AbstractAccurate understanding and forecasting of traffic is a key contemporary problem for policymakers. Road networks are increasingly congested, yet traffic data is often expensive to obtain, making informed policy-making harder. This paper explores the extent to which traffic disruption can be estimated using features from the volunteered ...
Camargo CQ +4 more
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A characterization of Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
, 2010 This paper characterizes the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) phenomenon and explores comprehensively its relation with SDI. The SDI component view is used as common framework for describing the main characteristics of VGI and as framework for
Bregt, Arnold +3 more
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Developing a Workflow to Identify Inconsistencies in Volunteered Geographic Information: A Phenological Case Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent improvements in online information communication and mobile location-aware technologies have led to the production of large volumes of volunteered geographic information. Widespread, large-scale efforts by volunteers to collect data can inform and
Hamed Mehdipoor +4 more
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IL FENOMENO VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
GEOmedia, 2014 The contribution addresses the phenomenon of Voluntereed Geographic Information explaining these new and burgeoning sources of information offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at ...
Flavio Lupia, Cristina Capineri
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THE VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 The purpose of the paper is to investigate the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which is still at a very early stage, to identify its use worldwide including characteristic examples and research its potential applications in Cultural Heritage ...
S. Sylaiou +3 more
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ASSESSING ACCIDENT HOTSPOTS BY USING VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]
Journal CleanWAS, 2017 Due to the ever-increasing number of vehicles, transportation issues, especially transportation safety have gained great importance. One of the social problems in the world, and particularly in developing countries, which each year imposes great ...
Golnoosh, Mahmoud
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Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
This open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geovisualization and user interactions related to VGI, and discusses selected topics in active participation, social ...
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Volunteered Geographic Information for Enhanced Marine Environment Monitoring [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2018 The ability to detect and monitor oil spills at sea is becoming increasingly important due to the high demand of oil-based products. Remote sensing frameworks have been proven to give accurate results in case of major events; nonetheless, also medium and
Massimo Martinelli, Davide Moroni
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