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Photo Based Volunteered Geographic Information Initiatives: A Comparative Study of their Suitability for Helping Quality Control of Corine Land Cover

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  • Jacinto Estima

    (ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)

  • Marco Painho

    (ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)

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Volunteered Geographic Information has become exponentially available over the Web in the last years. This availability can hide a vast geographical richness and provides us with both a great opportunity to explore new ways to use it and also big challenges related with its unstructured nature. This paper conducts a preliminary analysis of the adequacy of photos from the Flickr and Panoramio initiatives in order to use them as a source of field data in the quality control of the Land Use/Cover databases production. It evaluates its temporal and spatial distributions over Continental Portugal and also its distribution over Land Use/Cover classes using as a reference the European Corine Land Cover database. It concludes that this source is very valuable but needs to be combined with other sources due to its uneven spatial distribution.

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  • Jacinto Estima & Marco Painho, 2014. "Photo Based Volunteered Geographic Information Initiatives: A Comparative Study of their Suitability for Helping Quality Control of Corine Land Cover," International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), IGI Global, vol. 5(3), pages 73-89, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jaeis0:v:5:y:2014:i:3:p:73-89
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    1. Asamaporn Sitthi & Masahiko Nagai & Matthew Dailey & Sarawut Ninsawat, 2016. "Exploring Land Use and Land Cover of Geotagged Social-Sensing Images Using Naive Bayes Classifier," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(9), pages 1-22, September.

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