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The role of Volunteered Geographic Information in participatory planning. Examples from Denmark and Finland

open access: yesGeoforum Perspektiv, 2012
Due to developments in pervasive computing and the diffusion of digital media technologies, the amount of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is rising rapidly. The paper looks at the potential of applying VGI to a participatory planning context and
Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen, Maarit Kahila
doaj   +3 more sources

A Geographical Abacus of the Urban Building Heritage Based on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

open access: yes, 2021
This paper describes the preliminary result of the research project “Urban Abacus of Building Energy performances (Abaco Urbano Energeticodegli Edifci – AUREE)” aimed at supporting the renovation and energy efficiency enhancement of urban building heritage financed by Ricerca Sistema Elettrico (MISE) program.
Stefano Pili   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is geographic information collected by way of crowdsourcing. However, the distinction between VGI as an information product and the processes that create VGI is blurred.
Victoria Fast, Claus Rinner
doaj   +1 more source

A USER-DRIVEN SELECTION OF VGI BASED ON MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE QUALITY LEVELS [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Despite Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) activities are now extremely helpful in a number of scientific applications, researchers and decision makers oppose some resistance to the usage of volunteered contributions, due to quality issues. Several
G. Bordogna   +4 more
doaj   +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 geospatial data across sectors and stakeholders.
openaire   +1 more source

Citizen science approaches to crowdsourcing food environment data: A scoping review of the literature

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 24, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Summary Globally, the adoption and implementation of policies to improve the healthiness of food environments and prevent population weight gain have been inadequate. This is partly because of the complexity associated with monitoring dynamic food environments.
Jacqueline Monaghan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of Geomatics Engineering and VGI Within the Landslide Risk Assessment Procedures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper presents a literature review on the methodology called Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and its use for Landslide Risk Assessment (LRA).
BERTACCHINI, Eleonora   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A Spatio-Temporal VGI Model Considering Trust-Related Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
Over the past several years, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has expanded rapidly. VGI collection has been proven to serve as a highly successful means of acquiring timely and detailed global spatial data.
Yijiang Zhao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reputation evaluation of georeferenced data for crowd-sensed applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a process where individuals, supported by enabling technologies, behave like physicalsensorstoharvestgeoreferencedcontentintheirsurroundings.
Gusmini, Marco   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Geo-tagged photographs are used increasingly as a source of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which could potentially be used for land use and land cover applications.
Antoniou, Vyron   +8 more
core   +8 more sources

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