OpenStreetMap: Challenges and opportunities in machine learning and remote sensing

JE Vargas-Munoz, S Srivastava, D Tuia… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community-based, freely available, editable map service created
as an alternative to authoritative sources. Given that it is edited mainly by volunteers with …

Satellite remote sensing to monitor species diversity: Potential and pitfalls

D Rocchini, DS Boyd, JB Féret… - Remote Sensing in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the level of diversity in plant communities from field‐based data is difficult for a
number of practical reasons:(1) establishing the number of sampling units to be investigated …

Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products

SV Stehman, GM Foody - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Accuracy assessment and land cover mapping have been inexorably linked throughout the
first 50 years of publication of Remote Sensing of Environment. The earliest developers of …

Crowdsourcing, citizen science or volunteered geographic information? The current state of crowdsourced geographic information

L See, P Mooney, G Foody, L Bastin, A Comber… - … International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information,
sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative …

Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models?

KS He, BA Bradley, AF Cord, D Rocchini… - Remote Sensing in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Two prominent limitations of species distribution models (SDM s) are spatial biases in
existing occurrence data and a lack of spatially explicit predictor variables to fully capture …

Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience

Y Yan, CC Feng, W Huang, H Fan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic
information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature …

Urban building energy and microclimate modeling–From 3D city generation to dynamic simulations

A Katal, M Mortezazadeh, LL Wang, H Yu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Dynamic urban simulations often face three main challenges: 3D digital city generations,
building archetype creations, and inclusions of urban microclimate impacts due to limited …

Detecting animals in African Savanna with UAVs and the crowds

N Rey, M Volpi, S Joost, D Tuia - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer new opportunities for wildlife monitoring, with
several advantages over traditional field-based methods. They have readily been used to …

Annual large-scale urban land mapping based on Landsat time series in Google Earth Engine and OpenStreetMap data: A case study in the middle Yangtze River …

D Liu, N Chen, X Zhang, C Wang, W Du - ISPRS Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Long time series (eg 30 years) urban land observations from remote sensing images are
important for urban growth modeling as well as for the goal of sustainable urban …

Crowdsourced geospatial data quality: Challenges and future directions

A Basiri, M Haklay, G Foody… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
A decade ago, Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) was identified as a new source
of information that would blur the traditional boundary between producers and the …