µ-shapes: Delineating urban neighborhoods using volunteered geographic information

Validation of Volunteered Geographic Information Landuse Change Using Satellite Imagery

Land use change monitoring is one of the main concerns of managers and urban planners due to human activities and unbalanced physical development in urban areas. In this paper, a combination of remote sensing data and volunteered geographic information was used to assess the quality of volunteered geographic information on land use and land cover changes monitoring. For this purpose, the ORBVIE...

Volunteered geographic information, urban forests, & environmental justice

Urban monitoring using NetKDE and VGI Network based kernel density estimation on volunteered geographic information applied to Baghdad, Iraq

Network based kernel density estimation on volunteered geographic information applied to Baghdad, Iraq Nicolas LACHANCE-BERNARD; Timothée PRODUIT; Loic GASSER Laboratory of Geographic Informations Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL ENAC IIE LASIG, Bâtiment GC, Station 18, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland +41 (21) 693 57 87, [email protected] (correspondent author...

Spatial Analysis Quality of Life in Urban Areas Using Geographic Information System (GIS) (Case Study: District 2 of Mashhad)

The present study is descriptive-analytical and for the purpose of application. The main objective of the present research is to develop a combination of quality of life indicators for neighborhoods in District 2 of Mashhad. The required information was obtained from the municipality of Mashhad and the questionnaire was used. According to the population of Region 2 in 1395, which is 513365 peop...

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...