Photo based volunteered geographic information initiatives: A comparative study of their suitability for helping quality control of corine land cover

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

11 Citations (Scopus)

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. 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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)73-89
Number of pages17
JournalInternational Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems
Volume5
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2014

Keywords

  • Corine land cover
  • Geographic information systems
  • Land cover
  • Land use
  • Volunteered geographic information

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Photo based volunteered geographic information initiatives: A comparative study of their suitability for helping quality control of corine land cover'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this