With the ubiquity of advanced web technologies and location-sensing hand held devices,
citizens regardless of their knowledge or expertise, are able to produce spatial information …

Mapping the distribution, pattern, and composition of urban land use categories plays a
valuable role in understanding urban environmental dynamics and facilitating sustainable …

ABSTRACT A majority of research on Spatial Multicriteria Analysis (SMCA) has been
spatially implicit. Typically, SMCA uses conventional (aspatial) multicriteria methods for …

Phenomenal progress has been witnessed in the field of Geographic Information System
(GIS) in recent times. The development of webGIS is the result of the growth of the Internet …

Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to the widespread creation and sharing of
geographic information by private citizens, often through platforms such as online mapping …

Monitoring stations have been used for decades to properly measure hydrological variables
and better predict floods. To this end, methods to incorporate these observations into …

There has been enormous progress in geospatial data acquisition in the last decade.
Centralized data collection, mainly by land surveying offices and local government …

Abstract Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has been widely adopted to assist in
disaster management, yet its characteristics of uncertainty and requirements of large …

Crowdsourced data can effectively observe environmental and urban ecosystem processes.
The use of data produced by untrained people into flood forecasting models may effectively …

Location spoofing refers to the act of intentionally falsifying one's actual locational
information. The proliferation of location spoofing in recent years has stirred debate about …