Geo-Crowdsourcing Systems for Environment and Cultural Heritage Monitoring
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 4246
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Interests: geomatics; optical remote sensing; pixel-based and geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA); UAV applications; digital photogrammetry and spatial analysis for water resource management
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Interests: remote sensing for cultural heritage; optical image processing analysis
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Interests: remote sensing; photogrammetry; vegetation mapping; geoinformation; satellite image processing; spatial analysis for heavy metal detection
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Special Issue Information
The preservation of the environment and heritage and its acknowledged values require their protection and safeguarding. Cultural landscape and heritage are fragile environments and currently under various environmental concerns, such as climate change and anthropic pressure. In this direction, UNESCO and the European Community are pushing their Members States to adopt management initiatives to safeguard them. This is also aligned with the priorities of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all United Nations Member States aiming to strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
The protection of the environment and heritage requires a multifaceted approach, tapping into different strategies and tools that contribute to that goal. On one hand, the traditional measuring methods typically use expensive and static equipment which is not suitable for dynamic environments. On the other hand, the growing popularity of mobile phones and their technological capabilities, as well as proliferation of different wearable sensors, opens up new perspectives for a wide range of applications. Recent developments in WebGIS have created new opportunities to promote participation in natural and cultural heritage monitoring, taking advantage of citizens as a source of geographic information, generating the geo-crowdsourcing approach. Today, mobile crowdsensing services (MCS)—a subclass of crowdsourcing—are possible where several users complete the tasks of collectively sharing data and extracting information to measure and map phenomena of common interest. These systems can facilitate surveys by leveraging sensor-equipped mobile devices that carry out measurements covering a wide area in a short time without bearing the costs of traditional field work.
This Special Issue “Geo-Crowdsourcing Systems for Environment and Cultural Heritage Monitoring” aims to cover recent developments in the emerging Internet-empowered phenomenon where the time, effort, and resources from many individuals are mobilized towards specific goals.
Submitted papers should clearly show novel contributions and innovative applications in environmental and cultural heritage monitoring using the concept of geo-crowdsourcing in order to support any of the following topics (but are not limited to these):
- Smart systems;
- Internet of Things (IoT);
- Spatiotemporal Big Data analysis for open and crowd-sensed platforms;
- Fusion techniques for user-generated data;
- Mobile crowdsensing;
- Cultural heritage management through crowd-sensed system;
- Crowdsensing data for environmental monitoring;
- Smart systems for cultural heritage and landscape monitoring
- Early warning systems based on geo-crowdsourcing systems
- Crowdsource information as “ground truth” data for satellite and aerial observations.
Prof. Eufemia Tarantino
Dr. Athos Agapiou
Dr. Alessandra Capolupo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultural heritage and landscape
- smart systems
- open innovation
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- open data
- data fusion
- Industry 4.0
- sustainability
- Agenda 2030
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