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Citizen Empowered Mapping
Title
Citizen Empowered Mapping [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Leitner, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani.
ISBN
9783319516295
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Physical Description
X, 300 p. 106 illus., 71 illus. in color : online resource.
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Summary
This book promotes the exploitation of novel and emerging approaches for mapping environmental and urban informatics empowered by citizens. Chapters are grouped in three sections representing the main subjects. The first section describes data acquisition and modeling. The second section focuses on the quality and reliability of data. The final section presents different methods of environmental monitoring and perception. The book includes diverse case studies from Mexico, the United States and Czech Republic. Topics covered in Citizen Empowered Mapping are of interest for research scholars, practitioners, postgraduates, and professionals from a variety of disciplines including geography, environmental science, geographic information science, social science, and computer science.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 02, 2017
Series
Geotechnologies and the Environment, 18
Contents
Foreword
introduction
Part I: Data Acquisition and Modeling
Chapter 1. Level of Details Harmonization Operations in OpenStreetMap Based Large Scale Maps
Chapter 2. Cartographic Representation of Soundscape: Proposals and Assessment
Chapter 3. Evaluating the Current State of Geospatial Software as a Service Platforms: A Comparison Study
Chapter 4. Big geo-data handling based on parallel and distributed system’s strategies
Chapter 5. Productive Networks and Indirect Locations
Part II: Data Quality and Reliability
Chapter 6.Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Quality in The National Map Corps Project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Chapter 7. On Reliability of Routes Computed Based on Crowdsourced Points of Interest
Chapter 8. A Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Collected in Rural Areas to VGI Collected in Urban and Suburban Areas of the United States
Part III: Environmental Monitoring and Perception
Chapter 9. Identifying Frostquakes in Central Canada and Neighbouring Regions in the United States with Social Media
Chapter 10. Structuring Volunteered Geographic Information Collection to Improve Information Processing Efficiency in Environmental Management
Chapter 11. Volunteered Geographic Information for Building Territorial Governance in Mexico City: The Case of The Roma Neighborhood
Chapter 12. Crowdsourcing of environmental health quality perceptions: A pilot study of Kroměříž, Czech Republic.
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