An exploration of SDI and volunteered geographic information in Africa

Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context: North and South

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 203-218

  Georgiadou, Yola ^a   Budhathoki, Nama Raj ^b,c   Nedović Budić, Zorica ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED REGIONS; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE; UNITED NATIONS; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

EID: 84964884433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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