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The Ecosystem Where YouthMappers Live and Thrive
YouthMappers live and thrive in an ecosystem of university chapters, organizers, sponsors, ambassadors, and partners. This system places youth at the...
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OpenStreetMap history for intrinsic quality assessment: Is OSM up-to-date?
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a well-known crowdsourcing project which aims to create a geospatial database of the whole world. Intrinsic approaches based...
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Cities of the Future Need to Be Both Smart and Just: How We Think Open Map** Can Help
Along with increasing urban growth rates, especially in the global south, cities are becoming more fragile because of rapid climate change,...
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Bicycle Accessibility to Cultural Ecosystem Services in a Cross-Boundary Landscape
In our research we focus on the bicycle accessibility to cultural ecosystem services areas (CES), located in the cross-boundary landscape. As a case...
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Geographical features and development models of estuarine cities
Cities are the key areas for human beings to achieve sustainable development goals in the future. Estuarine cities are a special type of coastal city...
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Visualizing YouthMappers’ Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America
YouthMappers throughout Latin America are working to advance the attainment of the SDGs. Our contributions here centre on open data but also the maps...
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Map** Invisible and Inaccessible Areas of Brazilian Cities to Reduce Inequalities
This account of the experiences of the first YouthMappers chapter in Brazil aims to present the work done by Mapeadores Livres UFPR focusing on the...
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Sustainable Coastal Communities in the Anthropocene: Lessons from Crowd-Map** Projects in Colombia
We emphasize the need to contribute to the promotion of sustainable coastal communities from the recognition of a new era like the Anthropocene and...
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Cross-Continental YouthMappers Action to Fight Schistosomiasis Transmission in Senegal
The authors detail the design of an innovative and cooperative approach to ground truthing geospatial data through cross-continental YouthMappers...
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Improving the Environmental Performances of Informal Settlements Using an Ecosystem Services-Based Approach
This chapter presents the results concerning the activity of Ecosystem Services (ES) map** and assessment in the favela of Rocinha conducted during...
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Land-Use and Land Cover Change: Advancing with Geographic Information Science
The physical size of the province of Ontario has been a limitation in assessing, compiling, and monitoring land-use and land cover change....
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Youth and Humanitarian Action: Open Map** Partnerships for Disaster Response and the SDGs
Use of data and digital technologies has dramatically changed the look, feel, and efficacy of humanitarian action over the past decade. Partnerships...
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Youth Engagement and the Water–Energy–Land Nexus in Costa Rica
The water–energy–land nexus methodology proposes land management treatment based on watershed areas, considering the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Road network expansion and its impact on landscape patterns in the Dongzhi tableland of the Chinese Loess Plateau
Road network expansion can result in the fragmentation of ecological landscapes due to the transformation of landscape processes and patterns....
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Open GIS in the New Big Data Era
The GIS community has witnessed a boost of the development of Free and Open Source Software over the last two decades. However, OpenGIS also has the...
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Points of Interest (POI): a commentary on the state of the art, challenges, and prospects for the future
In this commentary, we describe the current state of the art of points of interest (POIs) as digital, spatial datasets, both in terms of their...
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The Massive Expansion and Spatial Transformation of Potentially Contaminated Land Across China in 1990–2020 Observed from Remote Sensing and Big-data
Identifying and monitoring the spatiotemporal patterns of potentially contaminated land (PCL) in China is a key concern of ecological governance....
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Spatiotemporal Detection and Delineation of Bhagirathi-Hooghly River Bank Erosion Using GIS Analytics, West Bengal, India
West Bengal is a riverine state in India. So the floodplain areas in the lower Gangetic plain experience several natural hazards like monsoon floods...
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Humans As Sensors in Urban Digital Twins
Digital twins have gained increasing attention as a tool to facilitate decision-making in the cities. However, the current discourse predominantly...
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Assessing the feasibility of Landsat satellite data in monitoring water body and shoreline change along the coast of Keta
This research explores the use of freely available multispectral Earth Observation (EO) data to monitor changes in shorelines and banks along the...
