Supporting Urban Energy Efficiency with Volunteered Roof Information and the Google Maps API

Supporting Urban Energy Efficiency with Volunteered Roof Information and the Google Maps API

The Heat Energy Assessment Technologies (HEAT) project uses high-resolution airborne thermal imagery, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), and a Geoweb environment to allow the residents of Calgary, Alberta, Canada to visualize the amount and location of waste heat leaving their houses, communities, and the city. To ensure the accuracy of these measures, the correct emissivity of ro...

Building multi-layer social knowledge maps with Google Maps API

Google Maps is an intuitive online-map service which changes people’s way of navigation on Geo-maps. People can explore the maps in a multi-layer fashion in order to avoid information overloading. This paper reports an innovative approach to extend the “power” of Google Maps to adaptive learning. We have designed and implemented a navigator for multi-layer social knowledge maps, namely Progress...

Exploring the Lineage of Volunteered Geographic Information with Heat Maps

This short paper reviews and clarifies the concept of heat maps for data visualization on cartographic maps. We show how heat maps can serve as a tool for powerful data exploration by presenting a practical example taken from the context of volunteered geographic information. In particular, we demonstrate how heat maps can help to get an overview over the users’ contribution behavior of informa...

Volunteered geographic information, urban forests, & environmental justice

Sentiment Analysis with the Google Prediction API and EmoSenticNet

Online recommender systems are useful for media asset management where they select the best content from a set of media assets. We have developed an architecture for 360-MAMSelect, a recommender system for educational video content. 360MAM-Select will utilise sentiment analysis and gamification techniques for the recommendation of media assets. 360-MAMSelect will increase user participation wit...