Using volunteered geographic information to assess mobility in the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-city time series analysis of 41 cities in 22 countries from March 2nd to 26th 2020. [PDF]
Global Health, 2020 Objectives Restricting mobility is a central aim for lowering contact rates and preventing COVID-19 transmission. Yet the impact on mobility of different non-pharmaceutical countermeasures in the earlier stages of the pandemic is not well-understood ...
Vannoni M +4 more
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MEASURING THE SPATIAL SIMILARITIES IN VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023 Volunteered citizens have the potential to be used as social and distributed sensors, monitoring their surroundings and producing and sharing massive amounts of geographic data.
N. Mahmoody-Vanolya +1 more
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Flexible Querying of Volunteered Geographic Information for Risk Management [PDF]
Proceedings of the 8th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, 2013 The paper presents an approach to manage volunteered geographic information (VGI) to point out anomalous conditions of the environment to help administrators in charge of the governance and maintenance of the territory to plan mitigation and safeguard interventions.
Paolo Arcaini +2 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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Quantifying Flood Water Levels Using Image-Based Volunteered Geographic Information
Remote Sensing, 2020 Many people use smartphone cameras to record their living environments through captured images, and share aspects of their daily lives on social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Yan-Ting Lin +4 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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Maps, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and the spatio-discursive construction of nature
Digital Geography and Society, 2022 This paper interrogates the role that spatial media such as maps and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) play in the construction and mobilisation of representations of nature.
Juan Astaburuaga +3 more
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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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A Volunteered Geographic Information-Based Environmental Decision Support System for Waste Management and Decision Making [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 The need for in-depth and fast observation of waste pollutions, increase in public concerns on environmental pollution and the effect of polluted environment on the physical and mental health of people have led to participatory environmental monitoring ...
Abolghasem Sadeghi‐Niaraki +2 more
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Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the popularity of protected areas for mountain biking and hiking in Australia: Insights from volunteered geographic information. [PDF]
J Outdoor Recreat Tour, 2023 Smith I +3 more
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