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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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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The Potential of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Future Transport Systems [PDF]
Urban Planning, 2016 As transport systems are pushed to the limits in many cities, governments have tried to resolve problems of traffic and congestion by increasing capacity. Miller (2013) contends the need to identify new capabilities (instead of capacity) of the transport
Maria Attard +2 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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TOWARDS RULE-GUIDED CLASSIFICATION FOR VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015 Crowd-sourcing, especially in form of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) significantly changed the way geographic data is collected and the products that are generated from them.
A. Loai Ali +3 more
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A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods [PDF]
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2016 With the ubiquity of advanced web technologies and location-sensing hand held devices, citizens regardless of their knowledge or expertise, are able to produce spatial information. This phenomenon is known as volunteered geographic information VGI. During the past decade VGI has been used as a data source supporting a wide range of services, such as ...
Hansi Senaratne +4 more
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Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016 Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative agencies.
Linda See +16 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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A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 Resilience in the urban context can be described as a continuum of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The need to move toward a sustainable future and bounce forward after any disruption has led recent urban resilience initiatives to ...
Mahsa Moghadas +3 more
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