Overview
- Reports on cutting-edge mobile technologies used to acquire, analyze and manage volunteered geographic information
- Discusses relevant case studies and addresses practical issues
- Outlines new methods and tools to help overcome the main drawbacks of using volunteered geographic information in Earth observation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Earth Systems Data and Models (ESDM, volume 4)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Experiences of VGI Creation & Exploitation for Citizen Science Projects
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Methods and Techniques for VGI Creation, Management and Analytics
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VGI Quality and its Management and Assessment
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Keywords
- VGI in geographical citizen science for Earth Observation
- VGI and Mobile Apps
- Geo-wiki Applications
- Land use monitoring
- Urban monitoring
- Biodiversity monitoring
- Metadata for VGI discovery and reuse
- VGI for ontologies creation
- Ontologies for VGI creation and use
- VGI cross –analysis with open data
- VGI querying
- VGI quality assessment and filtering
- Uncertainty management of VGI
About this book
This book, written by an international team of prominent authors, gathers the latest developments in mobile technologies for the acquisition, management, analysis and sharing of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the context of Earth observation. It is divided into three parts, the first of which presents case studies on the implementation of VGI for Earth observation, discusses the characteristics of volunteers’ engagement in relation with their expertise and motivation, analyzes the tasks they are called upon to perform, and examines the available tools for developing VGI. In turn, the second part introduces readers to essential methods, techniques and algorithms used to develop mobile information systems based on VGI for distinct Earth observation tasks, while the last part focuses on the drawbacks and limitations of VGI with regard to the above-mentioned tasks and proposes innovative methods and techniques to help overcome them. Given its breadth of coverage, the bookoffers a comprehensive, practice-oriented reference guide for researchers and practitioners in the field of geo-information management.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobile Information Systems Leveraging Volunteered Geographic Information for Earth Observation
Editors: Gloria Bordogna, Paola Carrara
Series Title: Earth Systems Data and Models
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70878-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70877-5Published: 22 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89002-9Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70878-2Published: 21 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-5830
Series E-ISSN: 2364-5849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 214
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Computational Intelligence, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery