The tasks of the crowd: A typology of tasks in geographic information crowdsourcing and a case study in humanitarian mapping

JP Albuquerque, B Herfort, M Eckle - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
… Herfort and Melanie Eckle analysed the data. Joao Porto De Albuquerque interpreted the
data and wrote the paper with contributions from Benjamin Herfort and Melanie Eckle. …

Monitoring and assessing post-disaster tourism recovery using geotagged social media data

Y Yan, M Eckle, CL Kuo, B Herfort, H Fan… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tourism is one of the most economically important industries. It is, however, vulnerable to
disaster events. Geotagged social media data, as one of the forms of volunteered geographic …

Volunteered geographic information for disaster risk reduction—the missing maps approach and its potential within the red cross and red crescent movement

S Scholz, P Knight, M Eckle, S Marx, A Zipf - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
For the last few years, the increasing need for humanitarian support has led to increasing
demand and responsibilities for the international humanitarian system. This trend raises …

[PDF][PDF] Quality Assessment of Remote Mapping in OpenStreetMap for Disaster Management Purposes.

M Eckle, JP de Albuquerque - ISCRAM, 2015 - idl.iscram.org
Over the last couple of years Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and particularly
OpenStreetMap (OSM) have emerged as an important additional source of information in …

A grounding-based ontology of data quality measures

…, L Griesbaum, M Eckle… - Journal of …, 2018 - digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu
Data quality and fitness for purpose can be assessed by data quality measures. Existing
ontologies of data quality dimensions reflect, among others, which aspects of data quality are …

[PDF][PDF] Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster management and improving urban resilience: an overview of recent developments and lessons learned

JP de Albuquerque, M Eckle, B Herfort… - European handbook of …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
In the past few years, crowdsourced geographic information (also called volunteered
geographic information) has emerged as a promising information source for improving urban …

[PDF][PDF] Towards assessing the quality of volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap for identifying critical infrastructures.

B Herfort, M Eckle, JP de Albuquerque, A Zipf - ISCRAM, 2015 - Citeseer
Identifying the assets of a community that are part of its Critical Infrastructure (CI) is a crucial
task in emergency planning. However, this task can prove very challenging due to the costs …

Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management in municipalities: A prototype decision support system

M Eckle, JP Albuquerque, B Herfort, R Wolff, A Zipf… - 2016 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
Floods are considered the most common and devastating type of disasters world-wide.
Therefore, flood management is a crucial task for municipalities- a task that requires dependable …

[PDF][PDF] Towards Using the Potential of OpenStreetMap History for Disaster Activation Monitoring.

M Auer, M Eckle, S Fendrich, L Griesbaum, F Kowatsch… - ISCRAM, 2018 - researchgate.net
Over the last couple of years, the growing OpenStreetMap (OSM) database repeatedly
proved its potential for various use cases, including disaster management. Disaster mapping …

Being specific about geographic information crowdsourcing: a typology and analysis of the Missing Maps project in South Kivu

B Herfort, M Eckle… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
Recent development in disaster management and humanitarian aid is shaped by the rise of
new information sources such as social media or volunteered geographic information. As …