Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data
Geo-tagged photographs are used increasingly as a source of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which could potentially be used for land use and land cover applications. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of using this source of spatial information for three use cases rela...
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| author | Antoniou, Vyron Costa Fonte, Cidália See, Linda Estima, Jacinto Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar Lupia, Flavio Minghini, Marco Foody, Giles M. Fritz, Steffen |
| author_facet | Antoniou, Vyron Costa Fonte, Cidália See, Linda Estima, Jacinto Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar Lupia, Flavio Minghini, Marco Foody, Giles M. Fritz, Steffen |
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| description | Geo-tagged photographs are used increasingly as a source of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which could potentially be used for land use and land cover applications. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of using this source of spatial information for three use cases related to land cover: Calibration, validation and verification. We first provide an inventory of the metadata that are collected with geo-tagged photographs and then consider what elements would be essential, desirable, or unnecessary for the aforementioned use cases. Geo-tagged photographs were then extracted from Flickr, Panoramio and Geograph for an area of London, UK, and classified based on their usefulness for land cover mapping including an analysis of the accompanying metadata. Finally, we discuss protocols for geo-tagged photographs for use of VGI in relation to land cover applications. |
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| spelling | nottingham-411422020-05-04T17:51:53Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41142/ Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data Antoniou, Vyron Costa Fonte, Cidália See, Linda Estima, Jacinto Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar Lupia, Flavio Minghini, Marco Foody, Giles M. Fritz, Steffen Geo-tagged photographs are used increasingly as a source of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which could potentially be used for land use and land cover applications. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of using this source of spatial information for three use cases related to land cover: Calibration, validation and verification. We first provide an inventory of the metadata that are collected with geo-tagged photographs and then consider what elements would be essential, desirable, or unnecessary for the aforementioned use cases. Geo-tagged photographs were then extracted from Flickr, Panoramio and Geograph for an area of London, UK, and classified based on their usefulness for land cover mapping including an analysis of the accompanying metadata. Finally, we discuss protocols for geo-tagged photographs for use of VGI in relation to land cover applications. MDPI 2016-05-13 Article PeerReviewed Antoniou, Vyron, Costa Fonte, Cidália, See, Linda, Estima, Jacinto, Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar, Lupia, Flavio, Minghini, Marco, Foody, Giles M. and Fritz, Steffen (2016) Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5 (5). 64/1-64/20. ISSN 2220-9964 geo-tagged photographs; Volunteered Geographic Information; Flickr; Panoramio; Geograph; land cover; land use; fitness-for-use http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/5/64 doi:10.3390/ijgi5050064 doi:10.3390/ijgi5050064 |
| spellingShingle | geo-tagged photographs; Volunteered Geographic Information; Flickr; Panoramio; Geograph; land cover; land use; fitness-for-use Antoniou, Vyron Costa Fonte, Cidália See, Linda Estima, Jacinto Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar Lupia, Flavio Minghini, Marco Foody, Giles M. Fritz, Steffen Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| title | Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| title_full | Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| title_fullStr | Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| title_short | Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| title_sort | investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data |
| topic | geo-tagged photographs; Volunteered Geographic Information; Flickr; Panoramio; Geograph; land cover; land use; fitness-for-use |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41142/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41142/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41142/ |