Weather with you: Evaluating report reliability in weather crowdsourcing

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 30-November-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 152-162

  Niforatos, Evangelos ^a   Vourvopoulos, Athanasios ^b   Langheinrich, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Experience Sampling (ESM); Mobile sensing; Participatory sensing

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

EXPERIENCE SAMPLING; FUTURE WEATHERS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOBILE SENSING; ONLINE SURVEYS; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SHORT TERM PREDICTION;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 84959295926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2836041.2836056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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