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Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for the Spatial Planning of Flood Evacuation Shelters in Jakarta, Indonesia [PDF]

, 2018
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is frequently used in disaster management because of its capability to provide near real-time information. However, the potential of VGI in spatial planning is much less recognized, despite a number of advantages over traditional methods, in particular fast, timely and comprehensive data collection. This chapter
Kusumo, A.N.L., Reckien, D., Verplanke, J.J.   +2 more
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Mapping cognitive place associations within the United Kingdom through online discussion on Reddit

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 49, Issue 3, September 2024.
Short Abstract This paper explores cognitive place associations; conceptualised as a place‐based mental model that derives subconscious links between geographic locations. Utilising a large corpus of online discussion data from the social media website Reddit, we experiment on the extraction of such geographic knowledge from unstructured text.
Cillian Berragan, Alex Singleton, Alessia Calafiore, Jeremy Morley   +3 more
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Citizen Science for Urban Forest Management? Predicting the Data Density and Richness of Urban Forest Volunteered Geographic Information

Urban Science, 2017
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) has been heralded as a promising new data source for urban planning and policymaking. However, there are also concerns surrounding uneven levels of participation and spatial coverage, despite the promotion of VGI ...
Alec Foster, Ian M. Dunham, Charles Kaylor   +2 more
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AN INVENTORY DATABASE FOR GEOEDUCATIONAL OUTREACH BASED ON VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (VGI) APPROACH IN MALAYSIA

GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites, 2018
The authors aim to construct a geosite database in Malaysia that is based on volunteered geographic information approach. This is because geosites information is quite scattered around the country. Free tools from the internet such as google form and wixwebsite.com were used to produce the database.
Norbert SIMON, Che Aziz ALI, Marilah SARMAN, Dana BADANG, Tanot UNJAH, Mat Niza RAHMAN   +5 more
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Does Coimbra Need A 3D Cadastre? Prototyping A Crowdsourcing App As A First Step To Finding Out [PDF]

, 2016
The Municipality of Coimbra in Portugal, and indeed the country as a whole, is currently undergoing a long-term land registration (cadastre creation) exercise, with approximately 50% of the country having been surveyed, amounting to 1/3 of the total ...
de Almedia, JP, Ellul, C, Romano, R
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Land Data Assimilation: Harmonizing Theory and Data in Land Surface Process Studies

Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 62, Issue 1, March 2024.
Abstract Data assimilation plays a dual role in advancing the “scientific” understanding and serving as an “engineering tool” for the Earth system sciences. Land data assimilation (LDA) has evolved into a distinct discipline within geophysics, facilitating the harmonization of theory and data and allowing land models and observations to complement and ...
Xin Li, Feng Liu, Chunfeng Ma, Jinliang Hou, Donghai Zheng, Hanqing Ma, Yulong Bai, Xujun Han, Harry Vereecken, Kun Yang, Qingyun Duan, Chunlin Huang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Volunteered Geographic Information towards 3D Property Cadastral Systems (2): A Purpose Driven Web Application [PDF]

, 2016
VGI has not proved to be readily suitable to replace well-established accurate methods and technologies such as those of full standard cadastral surveys. Even so, VGI potentialities as relevant source of geospatial data have been widely acknowledged.
de Almeida, J.-P., Ellul, C., Fonte, C., Romano, R.   +3 more
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Geographic proximity and homophily effects drive social interactions within VGI communities: an example of iNaturalist

International Journal of Digital Earth
Social interactions among online community members contributing to volunteered geographic information (VGI) are a key element and often crucial to VGI project success.
Guiming Zhang, Xi Gong, Di Zhu
doaj   +1 more source

VGI Edit History Reveals Data Trustworthiness and User Reputation [PDF]

, 2014
Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014.Volunteered ...
D’Antonio, Fausto, Fogliaroni, Paolo, Kauppinen, Tomi   +2 more
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A Web GIS-Based Platform to Harvest Georeferenced Data from Social Networks: Examples of Data Collection Regarding Disaster Events [PDF]

, 2018
Whenever disaster situations occur the civil protection authorities need to have fast access to data that may help to plan emergency response. To contribute to the collection and integration of all available data a platform that aims to harvest ...
Cardoso, Alberto, Fonte, Cidália Costa, Fontes, Diogo   +2 more
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