Volunteered geographic data are being used increasingly to support land cover mapping and validation, yet the reliability of the volunteered data still requires further research. This study proposes data-based guidelines to help design the data collection by assessing the reliability of volunteered data collected using the Geo-Wiki tool. We summarized the interpretation difficulties of the volu...

Manuscript received January 20, 2012; revised march 29, 2012; accepted April 17, 2012. 7 The authors are with the Spanish Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Apartado 4084, 14080-Cordoba, Spain (e8 mail: [email protected] ). 9 10 11 Abstract--Geo-referencing of remote imagery with high spatial resolution can be achieved using the 12 semi-AUtomatic GEO-referencing (AUGEO) system which ...

This paper describes a set of experiments for monolingual English retrieval at GEO-CLEF 2005. We evaluate a technique for spatial retrieval based on named entity tagging, toponym resolution, and re-ranking by means of geographic filtering. To this end, we present a series of systematic experiments in the Vector Space paradigm. We investigate plain bag-of-word versus a kind of phrasal retrieval,...

Three dimensional data is in great demand for the various applications. In order to represent 3D space in details, it is indispensable to acquire 3D shape and texture together efficiently. However, there still lack a reliable, quick, cheap and handy method of acquiring three dimensional data of objects at higher resolution and accuracy in outdoor and moving environments. In this research, we pr...

The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) is a limb-scanning spectrometer that has operated onboard the Environmental Satellite since the end of March 2002. Common features of limb-scanning experiments are both high vertical resolution and poor horizontal resolution. We exploit the two-dimensional geo-fit retrieval approach [Appl. Opt. 40, 1872-1875 (2001)] to invest...

The ubiquity of low-cost GPS-enabled mobile devices and the proliferation of online social networks have enabled the collection of rich geo-social information that includes the whereabouts of the users and their social connections. This information can be used to provide a rich set of access control policies that ensure that resources are utilized uniquely and securely. Existing literature focu...

Air Quality is an environmental concern of fundamental importance across the globe. The need to monitor and understand air quality requires continual effort as populations grow, energy use increases, and industrial activity evolves. Air quality goals have also evolved as improved understanding of health effects has demonstrated the added benefit of setting lower targets for exposure of humans a...

The availability of high spatial resolution remote sensing data provides new opportunities for urban land-cover classification. More geometric details can be observed in the high resolution remote sensing image, Also Ground objects in the high resolution remote sensing image have displayed rich texture, structure, shape and hierarchical semantic characters. More landscape elements are represent...