Volunteered geographic information, urban forests, & environmental justice

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...

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...

The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis.

Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However, scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be unequally distributed among poor and minority urban communities, meaning that these communities are potentially being deprived of public environmental benefits, a form of environmental injustice. The evidence of this problem is not uniform however, and eviden...

Towards Defining a Framework for the Automatic Derivation of 3D CityGML Models from Volunteered Geographic Information

High-quality geographic data sources are eminent for urban data management and the creation of detailed 3D city models. In the last two decades, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) increasingly gained attractiveness to both amateur users and professionals, resulting in a broad availability of urban data within VGI communities and especially OpenStreetMap (OSM). OSM provides detailed inform...

Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography: Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information for Environmental Monitoring