Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Degbelo, Auriol ^a   Granell, Carlos ^b   Trilles, Sergio ^b   Bhattacharya, Devanjan ^c   Casteleyn, Sven ^b   Kray, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Citizen centric challenges; GIScience; Maps; Open data; Smart cities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962407115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5020016     Document Type: Article

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