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The utility of using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for evaluating pluvial flood models.

open access: yesScience of the Total Environment, 2023
Pluvial floods are increasingly threatening urban environments worldwide due to human-induced climate change. High-resolution, state-of-the-art pluvial flood models are urgently needed to inform climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction ...
M. Drews   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Collecting volunteered geographic information from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS): experiences from the CAMALIOT project

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Raw observations (carrier-phase and code observations) from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can now be accessed from Android mobile phones (Version 7.0 onwards).
L. See   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Continuum

open access: yesEAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things, 2023
Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a system that supports the management and use of geospatial data and related resources. It involves the creation and maintenance of a network of organizations, people, and technology that enables the sharing of ...
K. Shahi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using gamification to increase map data production during humanitarian volunteered geographic information (VGI) campaigns

open access: yesCartography and Geographic Information Science, 2023
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) offers a solution to inequalities in authoritative map data that can limit our response to humanitarian crises. However, sustaining voluntary contributions of map data can be difficult and hybrid machine learning ...
Kirsty Watkinson   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

TOWARDS RULE-GUIDED CLASSIFICATION FOR VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Flood severity mapping from Volunteered Geographic Information by interpreting water level from images containing people: a case study of Hurricane Harvey [PDF]

open access: yesIsprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020
With increasing urbanization, in recent years there has been a growing interest and need in monitoring and analyzing urban flood events. Social media, as a new data source, can provide real-time information for flood monitoring.
Yu Feng, C. Brenner, Monika Sester
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Placial-Discursive Topologies of Violence: Volunteered Geographic Information and the Reproduction of Violent Places in Recife, Brazil

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
Knowledge and experiences of violence transform the ways in which individuals perceive the urban landscape, construct and reproduce (un)safety, and make everyday decisions regarding mobility and the use of space.
Cléssio Moura de Souza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Factors Affecting Adoption of Volunteered Geographic Information in the Context of National Spatial Data Infrastructure

open access: yesISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2022
Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have been implemented for the last four decades in most countries. One of the key objectives of SDIs is to ensure the quick availability and accessibility of spatial data.
Munir Ahmad, M. S. H. Khayal, A. Tahir
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quality assessment of volunteered geographic information for outdoor activities: an analysis of OpenStreetMap data for names of peaks in Japan

open access: yesGeo-Spatial Information Science, 2022
Geographical studies of outdoor activities have increased in recent years with the rise in popularity of these activities worldwide, including in Japan. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a key tool for organizing outdoor activities as it offers
Jun Yamashita   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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