Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: Sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information

Applied Geomatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-18

  Schade, Sven ^a   Díaz, Laura ^b   Ostermann, Frank ^a   Spinsanti, Laura ^a   Luraschi, Gianluca ^a   Cox, Simon ^c   Nuñez, Manoli ^b   De Longueville, Bertrand ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Event Detection; Sensor web enablement; Spatial data infrastructure; VGI Sensing; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

GIS; GPS; SENSOR; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84874037191     PISSN: 18669298     EISSN: 1866928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12518-011-0056-y     Document Type: Article

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