• openAccess   Air Quality Monitoring Network Design Optimisation for Robust Land Use Regression Models 

      Gupta, Shivam; Pebesma, Edzer; Mateu, Jorge; Degbelo, Auriol MDPI (2018)
      A very common curb of epidemiological studies for understanding the impact of air pollution on health is the quality of exposure data available. Many epidemiological studies rely on empirical modelling techniques, such ...
    • openAccess   Collaboration or competition: The impact of incentive types on urban cycling 

      Pajarito Grajales, Diego Fabian; Degbelo, Auriol; Gould, Michael Taylor & Francis (2019-07)
      Bicycling is an important mode of transport for cities and many cities are interested in promoting its uptake by a larger portion of the population. Several cycling mobile applications primarily rely on competition as a ...
    • openAccess   Designing Semantic Application Programming Interfaces for Open Government Data 

      Degbelo, Auriol; Trilles, Sergio; Kray, Christian; Bhattachaya, Devanjan; Schiestel, Nicholas; Wissing, Jonas; Granell, Carlos Danube-University Krems (2016)
      Many countries currently maintain a national data catalog, which provides access to the available datasets – sometimes via an Application Programming Interface (API). These APIs play a crucial role in realizing the ...
    • openAccess   Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities 

      Trilles, Sergio; Granell, Carlos; Degbelo, Auriol; Bhattacharya, Devanjan Public Library of Science (2020)
      Scientific research results are traditionally published as articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or journals. These articles often use technical jargon, which precludes the general public from consuming the ...
    • openAccess   Open City Toolkit: el rol de las ciencias geoespaciales para la realización de ciudades abiertas y participativas 

      Trilles, Sergio; Granell, Carlos; Degbelo, Auriol; Bhattacharya, Devanjan eGeoMapping S.L. (2017)
      En la literatura se distinguen dos enfoques diferentes para la transformación de las actuales ciudades en ciudades inteligentes: (a) ofrecer sistemas más eficientes y autónomos a través del uso de la tecnología, sensores, ...
    • openAccess   Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience 

      Degbelo, Auriol; Granell, Carlos; Trilles, Sergio; Bhattacharya, Devanjan; Casteleyn, Sven; Kray, Christian MDPI (2016-02)
      The holy grail of smart cities is an integrated, sustainable approach to improve the efficiency of the city’s operations and the quality of life of citizens. At the heart of this vision is the citizen, who is the primary ...
    • openAccess   Quality of life, big data and the power of statistics 

      Gupta, Shivam; Mateu, Jorge; Degbelo, Auriol; Pebesma, Edzer Elsevier (2018)
      The digital era has opened up new possibilities for data-driven research. This paper discusses big data challenges in environmental monitoring and reflects on the use of statisticalmethodsintacklingthesechallengesforim ...
    • openAccess   Roadblocks Hindering the Reuse of Open Geodata in Colombia and Spain: A Data User’s Perspective 

      Benítez Páez, Fernando; Degbelo, Auriol; Trilles, Sergio; Huerta, Joaquin MDPI (2017-12)
      Open data initiatives are playing an important role in current city governments. Despite more data being made open, few studies have looked into barriers to open geographic data reuse from a data consumer’s perspective. ...