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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A framework for regional smart energy planning using volunteered geographic information [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2020 This study presents a framework for regional smart energy planning for the optimal location and sizing of small hybrid systems. By using an optimization model – in combination with weather data – various local energy systems are simulated using the ...
J. Valdes +7 more
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Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality [PDF]
, 2015 Crowdsourcing is a popular means of acquiring data, but the use of such data is limited by concerns with its quality. This is evident within cartography and geographical sciences more generally, with the quality of volunteered geographic information (VGI)
Boyd, D.S. +7 more
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A conceptual model of the automated credibility assessment of the volunteered geographic information [PDF]
, 2014 The use of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in collecting, sharing and disseminating geospatially referenced information on the Web is increasingly common.
Idris, Nurul Hawani +2 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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Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information [PDF]
, 2011 Thanks to recent convergence of greater access to broadband connections, the availability of Global Positioning Systems in small packages at affordable prices and more participative forms of interaction on the Web (Web 2.0), vast numbers of individuals ...
Cox, Simon +7 more
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Mining volunteered geographic information for predictive energy data analytics
Energy Informatics, 2018 Background Users create serious amounts of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Online platforms like OpenStreetMap or in real estate portals. Harvesting such data with the help of business analytics and machine learning methods yield promising ...
Konstantin Hopf
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Evacuation time estimate for a total pedestrian evacuation using queuing network model and volunteered geographic information [PDF]
, 2015 Estimating city evacuation time is a non-trivial problem due to the interaction between thousands of individual agents, giving rise to various collective phenomena, such as bottleneck formation, intermittent flow and stop-and-go waves.
Johansson, Anders +2 more
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Volunteered Geographic Information
, 2020 Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is spatial data that are gathered and shared by individuals to derive information about the world. VGI has largely been embraced due to the pervasiveness of mobile devices and affordances offered by the locational sensors that are housed within them.
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Public Perception of Urban Air Quality Using Volunteered Geographic Information Services
Urban Planning, 2020 Investigating perceived air quality (AQ) in urban areas is a rather new topic of interest. Papers presenting results from studies on perception of AQ have thus far focused on the individual characteristics leading to a certain AQ perception or have ...
Sonja Grossberndt +6 more
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