Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos: Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover

Jacinto Estima; Marco Painho

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6-15

Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos: Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover

Jacinto Estima, Marco Painho

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Abstract

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. In this paper we conduct a preliminary analysis of the adequacy of photos from the Flickr initiative in order to use them as a source of field data in the quality control of the Land Use/Cover databases production. We evaluate 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. We conclude that this source is very valuable but needs to be combined with other sources due to some issues related with its spatial distribution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages	205-220
Number of pages	16
Edition	PART 4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6-15
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2013
Event	13th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Duration: 24 Jun 2013 → 27 Jun 2013

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Number	PART 4
Volume	7974 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013
Country	Viet Nam
City	Ho Chi Minh City
Period	24/06/13 → 27/06/13

Keywords

Corine land cover
Geographic information systems
Land Use/Land cover
Volunteered geographic information

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Estima, J., & Painho, M. (2013). Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos: Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover. In Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings (PART 4 ed., pp. 205-220). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7974 LNCS, No. PART 4). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6-15

Estima, Jacinto ; Painho, Marco. / Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos : Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover. Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings. PART 4. ed. 2013. pp. 205-220 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 4).

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Estima, J & Painho, M 2013, Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos: Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover. in Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings. PART 4 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), no. PART 4, vol. 7974 LNCS, pp. 205-220, 13th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 24/06/13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6-15

Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos : Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover. / Estima, Jacinto ; Painho, Marco.

Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings. PART 4. ed. 2013. p. 205-220 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7974 LNCS, No. PART 4).

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Estima J , Painho M. Flickr geotagged and publicly available photos: Preliminary study of its adequacy for helping quality control of Corine Land Cover. In Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings. PART 4 ed. 2013. p. 205-220. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 4). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6-15