A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms

Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged text, photos, or videos, and sharing this infor...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Ebrahim Poorazizi, Andrew J.S. Hunter, Stefan Steiniger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-08-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/4/3/1389