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Reputation evaluation of georeferenced data for crowd-sensed applications [PDF]
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a process where individuals, supported by enabling technologies, behave like physicalsensorstoharvestgeoreferencedcontentintheirsurroundings.
Gusmini, Marco+4 more
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Resilience in the urban context can be described as a continuum of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The need to move toward a sustainable future and bounce forward after any disruption has led recent urban resilience initiatives to ...
Mahsa Moghadas+3 more
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Crowdsourcing Street View Imagery: A Comparison of Mapillary and OpenStreetCam
Over the last decade, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a viable source of information on cities. During this time, the nature of VGI has been evolving, with new types and sources of data continually being added.
Ron Mahabir+4 more
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This paper presents a framework for considering quality control of volunteered geographic information (VGI). Different issues need to be considered during the conception, acquisition and post-acquisition phases of VGI creation.
C. C. Fonte+7 more
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Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information [PDF]
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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A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms
Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged ...
Mohammad Ebrahim Poorazizi+2 more
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Shared Aerial Drone Videos — Prospects and Problems for Volunteered Geographic Information Research
The practice of producing drone videos for hobby or commercial purposes has already created a vast amount of open and free video datasets. When these videos are properly authored, time-stamped and geo-referenced, they receive characteristics of ...
Stankov Uglješa+6 more
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TOWARDS RULE-GUIDED CLASSIFICATION FOR VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]
Crowd-sourcing, especially in form of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) significantly changed the way geographic data is collected and the products that are generated from them.
A. Loai Ali+3 more
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Development of an Algorithm to Evaluate the Quality of Geolocated Addresses in Urban Areas
The spatial and semantic data of geographic addresses are extremely important for citizens, governments, and companies. The addresses can georeference environmental, economic, security, health, and demographic parameters in urban areas.
Rafael Sierra Requena+3 more
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THE VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY [PDF]
The purpose of the paper is to investigate the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which is still at a very early stage, to identify its use worldwide including characteristic examples and research its potential applications in Cultural Heritage ...
S. Sylaiou+3 more
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