[Gfgi] Call for Papers: Special Issue "Volunteered Geographic Information" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

[Alexander Zipf]

Call for Papers:


    Special Issue "Volunteered Geographic Information" of the/ISPRS
    International Journal of Geo-Information/
    <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi>

Parallel to the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, volunteered geographic 
information (VGI) has emerged as a novel form of user-generated content, 
which involves both active forms of contribution such as online mapping 
or the explicit georeferencing of various media as well as the passive 
collection of data via the user’s location-enabled smartphone. Due to an 
abundance of corresponding VGI platforms and Location Based Social 
Networks (LBSN), there are now massive datasets, which are freely 
available and have the potential to complement, update or even replace 
data obtained from traditional sources such as commercial vendors, 
public authorities or mapping agencies. However, due to inherent 
characteristics of VGI, which mostly result from a lack of formal 
specifications, exploiting its full potential is still challenging and 
in need of issues such as quality assessment, data integration or 
standardization to be addressed.

Active research is ongoing that addresses many of these issues including 
initiatives such as COST Action networks TD1202 (Mapping and Citizen 
Sensor) and IC1203 (ENERGIC), which bring together researchers across 
the EU to address many pressing issues related to VGI. The European 
Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and its counterpart in the USA 
(Citizen Science Association) are also strong alliances of public and 
private organizations involved in research of relevance to VGI, among 
many others in a growing field of interest.

A Special Issue in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/vgi> is dedicated to 
explore current trends with regards to the technological, 
methodological, conceptual and social dimensions of VGI. *We call for 
original papers <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/vgi>*, 
equally from both within the COST Actions, citizen science associations 
and from researchers around the world, which focus on all topics 
involving the collection, processing, analysis and general use of VGI.

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/vgi

*Special Issue Editors*
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf (GIScience Heidelberg)
Mr. David Jonietz (GIScience Heidelberg)
Dr. Vyron Antoniou (Hellenic Army Academy)
Dr. Linda See (IIASA Austria)

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