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A software architecture to integrate sensor data and volunteered geographic information for flood risk management [PDF]

, 2016
Natural disasters are phenomena that can cause great damage to people in urban and rural areas, and thus require preventive and reactive measures. If they involve multiple sources of information, these measures can be more useful and effective.
Albuquerque, João Porto de, Andrade, Sidgley Camargo de, Castanhari, Raul E. Simoni, Rocha, Roberto dos Santos   +3 more
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Animal‐Based Brands Taking the Plant‐Based Opportunity: A Tasting Experiment Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Plant‐Based Brand Extensions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumer taste and brand equity perceptions shape the acceptance of plant‐based milk products. Using a blind/informed tasting experiment, we evaluated consumers' willingness to buy (WTB) and taste perception of a plant‐based milk alternative produced by a traditional dairy brand, compared with competing plant‐based ...
Federico Parmiggiani, Mirta Casati, Elena Castellari, Fosca Vezzulli, Veronica Vitali, Milena Lambri, Claudio Soregaroli   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Tasks of the Crowd: A Typology of Tasks in Geographic Information Crowdsourcing and a Case Study in Humanitarian Mapping

Remote Sensing, 2016
In the past few years, volunteers have produced geographic information of different kinds, using a variety of different crowdsourcing platforms, within a broad range of contexts. However, there is still a lack of clarity about the specific types of tasks
João Porto de Albuquerque, Benjamin Herfort, Melanie Eckle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizens as Sensors for Crisis Event: Sensor Web Enablement for Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]

, 2010
A set of developments within the field of geosensors is to engage citizens to act as sensors, thus providing so-called Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). There is a long tradition of non specialists contributing to the collection of geo-referenced
COX SIMON, DE LONGUEVILLE Bertrand, DIAZ SANCHEZ LAURA, LURASCHI Gianluca, SCHADE SVEN   +4 more
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Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management

, 2013
The amount of information generated and provided by citizens via the World Wide Web is constantly growing. Citizens share information, thoughts, and experiences in blogs and contribute information to web-based content sharing platforms, collaboratively created data bases that are freely usable by everybody. Disaster management as one component of urban
Dransch, D., Poser, K., Fohringer, J., Lucas, C.   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Economics of land‐based carbon mitigation

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural land holds tremendous potential to contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emission goals by providing low carbon renewable energy to displace fossil fuels and by serving as a sink for sequestering carbon in the soil with climate‐smart practices. This potential is, however, far from being realized.
Madhu Khanna
wiley   +1 more source

Towards mapping road network patterns from volunteered geographic information: a case of openstreetmap in developing cities

Discover Cities
Volunteer-created OpenStreetMap (OSM) provides current and open-access geographic information. In the context of the Neogeography paradigm, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Crowdsourced Geographic Data (CSGD), and Crowdsourced Geographic ...
Farzana Ahad, Huma Rashid, Shamim Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Shafi Bhat, Peer Jeelani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs, Deena Shariq, Emily Yang, Giselle Maya, Taylor L. Wilds, Collin W. Mueller, Arianna M. Gard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality control in Volunteered Geographic Information: analysis, representation and proposals for its assessment [PDF]

, 2014
Questo lavoro analizza i contributi geografici volontari come particolare sorgente di informazione in applicazioni di carattere scientifico o professionale, approfondendone la principale criticità: la qualità. Dopo aver fornito un quadro introduttivo,
Bordogna, Gloria, Carrara, Paola, Criscuolo, Laura, Pepe, Monia   +3 more
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Parents' WhatsApp coping resources in the context of ongoing political conflicts: An ecological exploration

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment.
Daphna Yeshua‐Katz, Stav Shapira, Orna Braun‐Lewensohn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source