• openAccess   A comparative study on VGI and professional noise data 

      García-Martí, Irene; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis E. AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and its growing presence in urban areas, turn them up into low cost environmental monitoring platforms. In this field, several authors made different efforts to provide alternatives ...
    • openAccess   Beyond data collection: Objectives and methods of research using VGI and geo-social media for disaster management 

      Granell, Carlos; Ostermann, Frank Elsevier (2016)
      This paper investigates research using VGI and geo-social media in the disaster management context. Relying on the method of systematic mapping, it develops a classification schema that captures three levels of main ...
    • openAccess   Discovery and integration of Web 2.0 content into geospatial information infrastructures: a use case in wild fire monitoring 

      Núñez Redó, Manuela; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Gil, José; González, David; Huerta, Joaquin Springer (2011)
      Efficient environment monitoring has become a major concern for society to guarantee sustainable development. For instance, forest fire detection and analysis is important to provide early warning systems and identify ...
    • openAccess   FOODIE: Farm‐Oriented Open Data in Europe 

      Esbrí, Miguel Ángel AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The agriculture sector is a unique sector due to its strategic importance for both European citizens (consumers) and European economy (regional and global) which, ideally, should make the whole sector a network of interacting ...
    • openAccess   Interoperable Search Mechanisms for Web 2.0 Resources 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Núñez Redó, Manuela; González, David; Gil, José; Aragó Galindo, Pau; Pultar, Edward; Huerta, Joaquin European Commission (2012)
      We are currently witnessing ordinary citizens willing to share geospatial information using friendly and easy-to use tools provided by Web 2.0 platforms. These platforms act as social networks describing events with ...
    • openAccess   Mobile Application for Noise Pollution Monitoring through Gamification Techniques 

      García-Martí, Irene; Benedito-Bordonau, Mauri; Trilles, Sergio; Beltran Fonollosa, Arturo; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin; Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis E. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      Full data coverage of urban environments is crucial to monitor the status of the area to detect, for instance, trends and detrimental environmental changes. Collecting observations related to environmental factors such as ...
    • openAccess   Semantic analysis of Citizen Sensing, Crowdsourcing and VGI 

      Comber, Alexis; Schade, Sven; See, Linda; Mooney, Peter; Foody, Giles AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      This paper describes a semantic analysis of terms used to describe citizen sensing and crowdsourced data use in scientific analyses. It applies a latency analysis to journal abstracts downloaded from Scopus that matched ...
    • openAccess   Towns Conquer : A Gamified application to collect geographical names (vernacular names/toponyms) 

      Castellote, Jesús; Huerta, Joaquin; Pescador, Javier; Brown, Michael AGILE (2013)
      The traditional model for geospatial crowd sourcing asks the public to use their free time collecting geospatial data for no obvious reward. This model has shown to work very well on projects such as Open ...