Crowdsourcing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in disaster management
, 2019 LAUREA MAGISTRALEGli studi esistenti mostrano che le informazioni geografiche sono fondamentali per migliorare la gestione dei disastri. Si è visto che anche il cosiddetto “Crowdsourcing” si dimostra essere una utile piattaforma di comunicazione e di ...
KHALILI FAMENIN, BEHNAM
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Addressing Vagueness in Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - A Case Study
, 2009 In times of climate change, people s perceptions of environmental phenomena might become an invaluable source of information if shared with the general public and the scientific community (Craglia et al., 2008). Such information is generally described as
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Identifying Evacuation Needs and Resources Based on Volunteered Geographic Information: A Case of the Rainstorm in July 2021, Zhengzhou, China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Gao J, Murao O, Pei X, Dong Y.
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P.: Integrating volunteered geographic information into pervasive health computing applications [PDF]
, 2011 —In this paper we describe the potential for using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in pervasive health computing. We use the OpenStreetMap project as a case-study of a successful VGI project and investigate how it can be expanded and used as a ...
Padraig Corcoran +3 more
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A characterization of Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
, 2010 This paper characterizes the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) phenomenon and explores comprehensively its relation with SDI. The SDI component view is used as common framework for describing the main characteristics of VGI and as framework for
Castelein, Watse +7 more
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Volunteered Geographic Information : Towards the establishment of a new paradigm
, 2015 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is user-generated content that is assorted with spatial coordinates. This position paper places VGI in the broader context of data sciences, underscoring its most critical properties, identifies its contribution ...
Jiang, Bin,, Thill, Jean-Claude,
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, 2017 Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are a special category of data hubs that involve technological and human resources and follow well defined legal and technical procedures to collect, store, manage and distribute spatial data. INSPIRE is the EU’s authoritative SDI in which each Member State provides access to their spatial data across a wide spectrum
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A North-South Problem in Civic-Tech and Volunteered Geographic Information as Countermeasures of COVID-19: A Brief Overview. [PDF]
SN Comput Sci, 2022 Suzuki K.
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A Framework for Investigating Volunteered Geographic Information Relevance in Planning
, 2013 Advances in information and communication technology and the ready availability of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) have made it possible for citizens to create information on the internet expressing their personal perceptions in the form of pictures ...
Cowan, Terri
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