On quantifying qualitative geospatial data: A probabilistic approach

GEOCROWD 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-78

  Skoumas, Georgios ^a   Pfoser, Dieter ^b   Kyrillidis, Anastasios ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

probabilistic modeling; spatial relationships; user generated content

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC ASSUMPTIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84889638271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2534732.2534742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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