Methods for deriving and calibrating privacy-preserving heat maps from mobile sports tracking application data

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-144

  Oksanen, Juha ^a   Bergman, Cecilia ^a   Sainio, Jani ^b   Westerholm, Jan ^b  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Big data; Cycling; GIS; Location based services (LBSs); Privacy; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; CYCLE TRANSPORT; DATA PROCESSING; GIS; TRACKING; URBAN PLANNING;

FINLAND; HELSINKI; VARSINAIS-SUOMI;

EID: 84941882276     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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