The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities

DW Walker, M Smigaj, M Tani - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Citizen science is proliferating in the water sciences with increasing public involvement in
monitoring water resources, climate variables, water quality, and in map** and modeling …

[PDF][PDF] A review of OpenStreetMap data

P Mooney, M Minghini - Map** and the citizen sensor, 2017 - library.oapen.org
While there is now a considerable variety of sources of Volunteered Geographic Information
(VGI) available, discussion of this domain is often exemplified by and focused around …

Crowdsourcing methods for data collection in geophysics: State of the art, issues, and future directions

F Zheng, R Tao, HR Maier, L See, D Savic… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Data are essential in all areas of geophysics. They are used to better understand and
manage systems, either directly or via models. Given the complexity and spatiotemporal …

The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis map**: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split

M Tavra, I Racetin, J Peroš - Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2021 - Springer
As climate change continues, wildfire outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more
difficult to control. In mid-July 2017, a forest fire spread from the forests to the city of Split in …

A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices

C Torresan, M Benito Garzón, M O'grady… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Climate-smart forestry (CSF) is an emerging branch of sustainable adaptive forest
management aimed at enhancing the potential of forests to adapt to and mitigate climate …

Ethics in the use of geospatial information in the Americas

PM Gómez, AR Santiago, GG Seco, R Casanova… - Technology in …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the last decade, the use of geospatial information in decision-making has reached an
especially important role, which is why its production has increased considerably. The …

Assuring the quality of VGI on land use and land cover: experiences and learnings from the LandSense project

G Foody, G Long, M Schultz… - Geo-spatial …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The potential of citizens as a source of geographical information has been recognized for
many years. Such activity has grown recently due to the proliferation of inexpensive location …

Evaluating current ethical values of OpenStreetMap using value sensitive design

R Jaljolie, T Dror, DN Siriba, S Dalyot - Geo-Spatial Information …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The crowdsourced OpenStreetMap map** platform is utilized by countless stakeholders
worldwide for various purposes and applications. Individuals, researchers, governments …

Development of a Web GIS for small-scale detection and analysis of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) cases based on volunteered geographic information for the city of …

F Schmidt, A Dröge-Rothaar, A Rienow - International Journal of Health …, 2021 - Springer
Background Various applications have been developed worldwide to contain and to combat
the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this context, spatial information is …

A Risk-based Approach for Enhancing the Fitness of use of VGI

T Sboui, S Aissi - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) phenomena offer an alternative or supplement to
the authoritative mechanism of geospatial data acquisition. It allows people without …