Understanding the potential of human–machine crowdsourcing for weather data

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 102, Issue , 2017, Pages 54-68

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Mobile sensing; Sensor networks; Smart cities

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; METEOROLOGY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SMARTPHONES;

AVERAGE ERRORS; DENSE NETWORK; FUTURE WEATHERS; HUMAN-MACHINE; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; MOBILE SENSING; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; SMART CITIES;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 85008685950     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.10.002     Document Type: Article

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