Remote sensing and GIS has emerged as an effective tool for the macro and micro level mapping of natural resources. With the increased resolution in RS data the accuracy in mapping has increased multifold and further these data may be uniformly overlaid on the geographical maps of the region or locality with various GIS packages. In order to have people’s viewpoint in the validation of ground l...

Virtual globes, i.e., geobrowsers that integrate multi-scale and temporal data from various sources and are based on a globe metaphor, have developed into serious tools that practitioners and various stakeholders in landscape and community planning have started using. Although these tools originate from Geographic Information Systems (GIS), they have become a different, potentially interactive ...

Urban planning is closely related both, to decision making processes as well as to the establishment of a further urban envisioning. Therefore, it is understood as a multidimensional and multipurpose managed change of the natural and built environment. [C.Carmona, 2003] Hence urban planning is a key element for the creation of sustainable cities by its influence on the production of quality spa...

In today’s network society policy analysis is more and more implemented by means of participatory approaches and methods. This is induced by the fact that power and knowledge are widely distributed among various groups of network actors (stakeholders). The network characteristics of our (western) societies (Castells, 1996) more or less force us to look at policy analysis from a more relativist ...

This paper introduces the concept of participatory sensing, which tasks everyday mobile devices, such as cellular phones, to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge. An initial architecture to enhance data credibility, quality, privacy and ‘shareability’ in such networks is described, as well as a cam...