Checking the Consistency of Volunteered Phenological Observations While Analysing Their Synchrony
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 The increasing availability of volunteered geographic information (VGI) enables novel studies in many scientific domains. However, inconsistent VGI can negatively affect these studies.
Hamed Mehdipoor +3 more
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A Location Aware Mobile Tool for Direct and Indirect Climate Data Sensors [PDF]
, 2014 Access to GIS data from mobile platforms continues to be a challenge and there is a wide range of fields where it is extremely useful. In this work, we combined three key aspects: climate data sensors, mobile platforms and spatial proximity operations ...
Huerta, Joaquin +2 more
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Supporting Urban Energy Efficiency with Volunteered Roof Information and the Google Maps API
Remote Sensing, 2014 The Heat Energy Assessment Technologies (HEAT) project uses high-resolution airborne thermal imagery, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), and a Geoweb environment to allow the residents of Calgary, Alberta, Canada to visualize the amount and
Bilal Abdulkarim +2 more
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How volunteered geographic information can be integrated into emergency management practice? : first lessons learned from an urban fire simulation in the city of Coimbra [PDF]
In the past few years, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has emerged as a new resource for improving the management of emergencies. Despite the growing body of research dedicated to the use of VGI in crisis management, studies are still needed ...
Albuquerque, João Porto de +3 more
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A software architecture to integrate sensor data and volunteered geographic information for flood risk management [PDF]
, 2016 Natural disasters are phenomena that can cause great damage to people in urban and rural areas, and thus require preventive and reactive measures. If they involve multiple sources of information, these measures can be more useful and effective.
Albuquerque, João Porto de +3 more
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Information, 2019 Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to geospatial data that is collected and/or shared voluntarily over the Internet. Its use, however, presents many limitations, such as data quality, difficulty in use and recovery.
Liliane Soares da Costa +3 more
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Characteristics of Citizen-contributed Geographic Information [PDF]
, 2014 Current Internet applications have been increasingly incorporating citizen-contributed geographic information (CCGI) with much heterogeneous characteristics.
LUTZ Michael +2 more
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Web 2.0 Broker: A standards-based service for spatio-temporal search of crowd-sourced information [PDF]
, 2012 Recent trends in information technology show that citizens are increasingly willing to share information using tools provided by Web 2.0 and crowdsourcing platforms to describe events that may have social impact.
Díaz Sánchez, Laura +3 more
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Open source data mining infrastructure for exploring and analysing OpenStreetMap [PDF]
, 2018 OpenStreetMap and other Volunteered Geographic Information datasets have been explored in the last years, with the aim of understanding how their meaning is rendered, of assessing their quality, and of understanding the community-driven process that ...
Mobasheri, Amin +2 more
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Future internet enablers for VGI applications
, 2013 This paper presents the authors experiences with the development of mobile Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) applications in the context of the ENVIROFI project and Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) FP7 research programme.FI-PPP ...
Berre, Arne +6 more
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