29 results on '"Estima, Jacinto"'
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2. Assessing flood severity from crowdsourced social media photos with deep neural networks
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Pereira, Jorge, Monteiro, João, Silva, Joel, Estima, Jacinto, and Martins, Bruno
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- 2020
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3. Flood simulation with the RiverCure approach: the open dataset of the 2016 Águeda flood event.
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Ricardo, Ana M., Ferreira, Rui M. L., Rodrigues da Silva, Alberto, Estima, Jacinto, Marques, Jorge, Gamito, Ivo, and Serra, Alexandre
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FLOOD forecasting ,SEDIMENT transport ,FLOODS - Abstract
Floods are among the most common natural disasters responsible for severe damages and human losses. Numerically produced data, managed by user-friendly tools for geographically referenced data, have been adopted to increase preparedness and reduce vulnerabilities. This paper describes the locally sensed and numerically produced data that characterize a flood event that occurred in February 2016 in the Portuguese Águeda River, referred to as Agueda.2016Flood for short. The data were managed through the RiverCure portal, a collaborative web platform connected to a validated shallow-water model featuring modelled dynamic bed geometries and sediment transport. The dataset provides a synthesis of topo-bathymetric, hydrometric and numerically produced data from a calibrated hydrodynamic model. Due to the lack of measured hydrometric data near the city, the numerically produced data are crucial for a complete description of the flood event. The Agueda.2016Flood dataset constitutes a complete validation test for flood forecasting models and a tool to better mitigate floods in this river and in similar rivers. Thus, Agueda.2016Flood is a relevant dataset for Águeda River stakeholders as well as for the community of flood modellers, as it provides a well-documented validation event for forecasting tools. The dataset can be accessed at 10.4211/hs.937927473a3a4e66a07a2e2fdd9d581e (Ricardo et al., 2024). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. A Web GIS Platform to Modeling, Simulate and Analyze Flood Events: The RiverCure Portal.
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Rodrigues da Silva, Alberto, Estima, Jacinto, Marques, Jorge, Gamito, Ivo, Serra, Alexandre, Moura, Leonardo, Ricardo, Ana Margarida, Mendes, Luís, and Ferreira, Rui M. L.
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GEOGRAPHIC information systems , *EMERGENCY management , *FLOOD risk , *FLOODS , *FLOOD forecasting , *REMOTE sensing , *WEB design - Abstract
Flood events are becoming more severe, causing significant problems to human communities, including physical, psychological, and material damage. For both flood forecasting in emergency response situations and flood mapping, georeferencing and data curation are paramount in the context of prevention or preparedness. Hence, data display, data management, and articulation with numerical simulation results must occur on GIS platforms. Our research is motivated by recent advances in Web and GIS technologies, social sensing and high-performance computing, and an envisaged wider availability of remote sensing data. This paper presents and discusses an innovative Web GIS platform named "RiverCure Portal" or "RCP" for short. This platform combines observations and hydrodynamic modelling tools to support various stages of the flood risk management cycle, including operational response, emergency preparedness, and risk assessment. RCP is a multi-organization, multi-context digital platform with flexible configuration features to define and support multiple sensor types and modelling options, satisfying the various needs of different organizations and stakeholders. In addition, this paper discusses the RiverCure Approach, which encompasses the following tasks directly supported by the RCP platform: defining the context and involved geometries, associating sensors to the context, pre-processing and generating the context mesh, defining the simulation event, running the simulation event, and analyzing the results from the simulation event. Thus, the RCP streamlines and simplifies data analysis and simulation procedures to meet decision-makers' needs. The novelties discussed in this paper include the design and discussion of a Web GIS platform that allows (i) to manage flood data and results of simulations at several contextual levels by different stakeholders such as domain experts, decision-makers, researchers, or students; (ii) to process and curate sensed data obtained from physical and social sensors; and (iii) update the state and values of the parameters of simulation tools through continuous data assimilation techniques for forecasting purposes. Finally, this paper supports the explanation and discussion with a running example, "Águeda 2016 flood" event, which dataset is publicly available for further study and experimentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Flood simulation with the RiverCure approach: The open dataset of the Águeda 2016 flood event.
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Ricardo, Ana M., Ferreira, Rui M. L., Rodrigues da Silva, Alberto, Estima, Jacinto, Marques, Jorge, Gamito, Ivo, and Serra, Alexandre
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NATURAL disasters ,FLOOD warning systems ,FLOODS ,SEDIMENT transport ,EXPERIMENTAL design ,COMPUTER simulation ,EMERGENCY management - Abstract
Floods are among the most common natural disasters responsible for severe damages and human losses. Combining numerical modelling with user-friendly tools for geographically referenced data has been adopted to increase preparedness and reduce vulnerabilities. This paper describes the numerical dataset of hydrometric variables that characterize a flood event occurred in February 2016 in the Portuguese Águeda river, shortly defined as Agueda.2016Flood. The dataset was numerically produced and managed through the RiverCure Portal, a collaborative web platform connected to a validated shallow-water model featuring modelled dynamic bed geometries and sediment transport. The dataset Agueda.2016Flood can be used as a starting point to design other experiments and tools, and to learn and apply the proposed approach by directly using the RiverCure Portal. This dataset includes modelled hydrodynamic data (output data) and the topographic, geometrical, land-use and hydrologic data (input data) necessary to carry out the numerical simulation of the flood event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Maestro: An Extensible General-Purpose Data Gathering and Classification System
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Serra, Alexandre, Estima, Jacinto, and Silva, Alberto
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- 2022
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7. The FireLoc Project: Identification, Positioning and Monitoring Forest Fires with Crowdsourced Data
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Fonte, Cidália C., Cardoso, Alberto, Estima, Jacinto, Almeida, J.-P. de, and Patriarca, Joaquim
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Forest fires ,Intelligent systems ,Mobile platforms ,Volunteered geographical information ,Information system - Abstract
The severity and impacts of forest fires have increased in the last years in several parts of the world, where devastating fires occur now almost every year. As these types of events are likely to increase due to climate changes, it is important to develop tools to assist authorities in the early identification and geolocation of ignitions so that they can be tackled as fast as possible. Several types of systems are currently being used, and others are under development, to automatically detect fires, based on, for example, thermal cameras and observation points; even so, the more systems available to detect these events and identify their location at an early stage, the better. This fact motivated the FireLoc project, currently under implementation, which aims to develop a system that will enable citizens to provide georeferenced data allowing the detection and geolocation of spotted fires in real time. The FireLoc system includes a dedicated app that enables citizens to report a spotted fire using their own smartphones. The app automatically collects the observer’s geolocation, a photograph of what is being observed, the orientation, and the approximate distance between the observer and the observed event. The FireLoc system stores reported data and includes functionalities for their validation, for data integration and processing to identify the location of spotted fires, as well as visualization of extracted information for several types of users, such as authorities and citizens. This paper presents the various components of the FireLoc project, the main challenges that are faced to obtain reliable geolocation of the observed events, and the results obtained with the first sets of collected data 031F-0B41-BD02 | José-Paulo Elvas DUARTE de ALMEIDA info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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- 2021
8. IDEAIS: Smart Voice Assistants to Improve Interaction with SDIs
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Bernab��, Miguel ��ngel, Estima, Jacinto, Gonz��lez, Mar��a Ester, Granell, Carlos, L��pez-V��zquez, Carlos, Luaces, Miguel R., Martins, Bruno, Moctezuma, Daniela, and Seco, Diego
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Science - Computers and Society ,Computers and Society (cs.CY) ,Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction ,Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) - Abstract
A critical goal, is that organizations and citizens can easily access the geographic information required for good governance. However, despite the costly efforts of governments to create and implement Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs), this goal is far from being achieved. This is partly due to the lack of usability of the geoportals through which the geographic information is accessed. In this position paper, we present IDEAIS, a research network composed of multiple Ibero-American partners to address this usability issue through the use of Intelligent Systems, in particular Smart Voice Assistants, to efficiently recover and access geographic information., This research has received funding from CYTED, Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development, GA No. 519RT0579
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- 2019
9. Assessing flood severity from georeferenced photos.
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Pereira, Jorge, Monteiro, João, Estima, Jacinto, and Martins, Bruno
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- 2019
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10. Semantic segmentation and colorization of grayscale aerial imagery with W‐Net models.
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Dias, Maria, Monteiro, João, Estima, Jacinto, Silva, Joel, and Martins, Bruno
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CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks ,HISTORICAL maps ,HIGH resolution imaging ,IMAGE segmentation ,ROAD maps - Abstract
The semantic segmentation of remotely sensed aerial imagery is nowadays an extensively explored task, concerned with determining, for each pixel in an input image, the most likely class label from a finite set of possible labels. Most previous work in the area has addressed the analysis of high‐resolution modern images, although the semantic segmentation of historical grayscale aerial photos can also have important applications. Examples include supporting the development of historical road maps, or the development of dasymetric disaggregation approaches leveraging historical building footprints. Following recent work in the area related to the use of fully‐convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation, and specifically envisioning the segmentation of grayscale aerial imagery, we evaluated the performance of an adapted version of the W‐Net architecture, which has achieved very good results on other types of image segmentation tasks. Our W‐Net model is trained to simultaneously segment images and reconstruct, or predict, the colour of the input images from intermediate representations. Through experiments with distinct data sets frequently used in previous studies, we show that the proposed W‐Net architecture is quite effective in colouring and segmenting the input images. The proposed approach outperforms a baseline corresponding to the U‐Net model for the segmentation of both coloured and grayscale imagery, and it also outperforms some of the other recently proposed approaches when considering coloured imagery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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11. Conceptual model to integrate data from diverse sources of user generated spatial content
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Estima, Jacinto, Painho, Marco, NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS), and Information Management Research Center (MagIC) - NOVA Information Management School
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Geography, Planning and Development ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,User generated spatial content ,Geographic information systems ,VGI ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,Spatial data integration ,Volunteered geographic information ,Land use/land cover ,SDG 15 - Life on Land - Abstract
Estima, J., & Painho, M. (2016). User generated spatial content-integrator: Conceptual model to integrate data from diverse sources of user generated spatial content. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(10), [183]. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5100183 Geographic information has been traditionally produced by mapping agencies and corporations, using highly skilled professionals as well as expensive precision equipment and procedures, in a very costly approach. The production of land use and land cover databases is just one example of such traditional approaches. At the same time, the amount of Geographic Information created and shared by citizens through the web has been increasing exponentially during the last decade as a result of the emergence and popularization of technologies such as theWeb 2.0, cloud computing, global positioning systems (GPS), smart phones, among others. This vast amount of free geographic data might have valuable information to extract. Combining data from several initiatives might further increase the value of such data. We propose a conceptual model to integrate data from suitable user generated spatial content initiatives. A prototype to demonstrate the ability of the model to perform such integration, based on two identified use cases, was also developed. publishersversion published
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- 2016
12. Open Data Initiatives in Brazil: An analysis of the public entities portals.
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Bittencourt, Cinthya, Estima, Jacinto, and Pestana, Gabriel
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OPEN data movement ,ECONOMIC development ,SOCIAL change ,GOVERNMENT accountability ,INVESTMENTS - Abstract
The Open Data movement, aimed at stimulating economic growth, making social changes, encouraging citizen participation and promoting new forms of government accountability, has been growing worldwide during the last decade. Following this trend, Open Data initiatives are progressively being used by governments particularly to increase the transparency of public resource investments and their outcomes. Information and Communication Technology tools combined with data analysis techniques can be used to make these Open Data understandable to anyone interested, machinereadable, reusable, and a source for improved decision support, innovation, accountability and efficiency. This paper analyzes some Open Data initiatives within the Brazilian Government in order to verify if they meet the requirements of the Open Data definition. The results indicated that those requirements were all almost fulfilled, but there are still challenges to be overcome, such as greater update frequency, better license-free specification, and effective availability of all data which can be open to citizens. These results can help governments to identify the gaps that need to be addressed and make Open Data initiatives more effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
13. Investigating the feasibility of geo-tagged photographs as sources of land cover input data
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Antoniou, Vyron, See, Linda, Estima, Jacinto, Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar, Lupia, Flavio, Minghini, Marco, Foody, Giles M., and Fritz, Steffen
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fitness-for-use ,Geograph ,land cover ,land use ,Panoramio ,geo-tagged photographs ,Volunteered Geographic Information ,Flickr - Abstract
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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- 2016
14. Crowdsourcing, citizen science or volunteered geographic information? The current state of crowdsourced geographic information
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See, Linda, Mooney, Peter, Foody, Giles M., Bastin, Lucy, Comber, A., Estima, Jacinto, Fritz, Steffen, Kerle, Norman, Jiang, Bin, Laakso, Mari, Liu, Hai-Ying, Mil?inski, Grega, Painho, Marco, Podor, Andrea, Olteanu-Raimond, Ana-Maria, and Rutzinger, Martin
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volunteered geographic information ,citizen science ,crowdsourcing ,mapping - Abstract
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative agencies. This activity has a very diverse character as it can, amongst other things, be active or passive, involve spatial or aspatial data and the data provided can be variable in terms of key attributes such as format, description and quality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, there are a variety of terms used to describe data arising from citizens. In this article, the expressions used to describe citizen sensing of geographic information are reviewed and their use over time explored, prior to categorizing them and highlighting key issues in the current state of the subject. The latter involved a review of ~100 Internet sites with particular focus on their thematic topic, the nature of the data and issues such as incentives for contributors. This review suggests that most sites involve active rather than passive contribution, with citizens typically motivated by the desire to aid a worthy cause, often receiving little training. As such, this article provides a snapshot of the role of citizens in crowdsourcing geographic information and a guide to the current status of this rapidly emerging and evolving subject.
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- 2016
15. User generated spatial content sources for land use/land cover validation purposes : suitability analysis and integration model
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Estima, Jacinto Paulo Simões and Painho, Marco Octávio Trindade
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Land Use ,Geographic Information Systems ,User Generated Spatial Content ,Land Cover ,Integration Model ,Spatial Data Integration - Abstract
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Geographic Information Systems Traditional geographic information has been produced by mapping agencies and corporations, using high skilled people as well as expensive precision equipment and procedures, in a very costly approach. The production of land use and land cover databases are just one example of such traditional approach. On the other side, The amount of Geographic Information created and shared by citizens through the Web has been increasing exponentially during the last decade, resulting from the emergence and popularization of technologies such as the Web 2.0, cloud computing, GPS, smart phones, among others. Such comprehensive amount of free geographic data might have valuable information to extract and thus opening great possibilities to improve significantly the production of land use and land cover databases. In this thesis we explored the feasibility of using geographic data from different user generated spatial content initiatives in the process of land use and land cover database production. Data from Panoramio, Flickr and OpenStreetMap were explored in terms of their spatial and temporal distribution, and their distribution over the different land use and land cover classes. We then proposed a conceptual model to integrate data from suitable user generated spatial content initiatives based on identified dissimilarities among a comprehensive list of initiatives. Finally we developed a prototype implementing the proposed integration model, which was then validated by using the prototype to solve four identified use cases. We concluded that data from user generated spatial content initiatives has great value but should be integrated to increase their potential. The possibility of integrating data from such initiatives in an integration model was proved. Using the developed prototype, the relevance of the integration model was also demonstrated for different use cases.
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16. Analisi esplorativa del potenziale delle fotografie georeferenziate condivise pubblicamente per il monitoraggio dei cambiamenti in aree urbane
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Lupia, Flavio, Estima, Jacinto, and Painho, Marco
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- 2015
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17. Comparative study of Land Use/Cover classification using Flickr photos, satellite imagery and Corine land cover database
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Estima, Jacinto, Fonte, Cidália C., Painho, Marco, Huerta Guijarro, Joaquín, Schade, Sven, and Granell Canut, Carlos
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Información geográfica ,Accuracy assessment ,Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe ( AGILE) Conference ,Land Use/Cover ,Geographic Information Science ,Volunteered Geographic Information ,Flickr - Abstract
Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014. Volunteered Geographic Information has been increasing exponentially over the last years, capturing the attention of the scientific community. Researchers have been very active exploring a vast amount of initiatives and trying to develop methodologies and possible real applications for this new source of geographic information. Land Use/Cover production is one of the areas where this type of geographic information might be very useful. In this paper we evaluate if geo-referenced and publicly available photos from the Flickr initiative can be used as a source of geographic information to help Land Use/Cover classification. Using the Corine Land Cover nomenclature, we compare the classification obtained for selected photo locations, against the classification obtained from high resolution satellite imagery for the same locations. We conclude that this source cannot be used alone for the purpose of Land Use/Cover classification but we also believe that it might contain helpful information if combined with other sources.
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18. The UAE Solar Atlas
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Eissa, Yehia, Ghedira, Hosni, Ouarda, Taha, Imen Gherboudj, Prashanth R Marpu, Munawwar, Saima, and Estima, Jacinto
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- 2013
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19. The web feature service: transaction standard: an example of prototype implementation
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Estima, Jacinto Paulo Simões and Cabral, Pedro da Costa Brito
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Web map service ,Standards OGC ,Interoperabilidade ,Web feature service - Transaction ,Web feature service ,Geographic information systems ,Sistemas de informação geográfica ,Serviços Web ,Interoperability ,OGC Standards ,Web services - Abstract
Trabalho de Projecto apresentado como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica With the Internet growth, the production and amount of available geographic data also increased. There are, at the moment, many servers around the world providing spatial information to several users, and many of them are accessing this information through different Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications. Therefore, it becomes necessary to develop standards in order to solve the interoperability problem inherent to this heterogeneous and distributed data. This work aims at showing the significance of standards, particularly the Web Feature Service - Transaction (WFS-T) standard in the Geographic Information (GI) domain. A prototype that provides GI according with this standard is also implemented, based on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, uDig, Apache and MapFish.
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- 2010
20. User Generated Spatial Content-Integrator: Conceptual Model to Integrate Data from Diverse Sources of User Generated Spatial Content.
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Estima, Jacinto and Painho, Marco
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DATA integration , *USER-generated content , *GEOGRAPHIC information systems - Abstract
Geographic information has been traditionally produced by mapping agencies and corporations, using highly skilled professionals as well as expensive precision equipment and procedures, in a very costly approach. The production of land use and land cover databases is just one example of such traditional approaches. At the same time, the amount of Geographic Information created and shared by citizens through the web has been increasing exponentially during the last decade as a result of the emergence and popularization of technologies such as theWeb 2.0, cloud computing, global positioning systems (GPS), smart phones, among others. This vast amount of free geographic data might have valuable information to extract. Combining data from several initiatives might further increase the value of such data. We propose a conceptual model to integrate data from suitable user generated spatial content initiatives. A prototype to demonstrate the ability of the model to perform such integration, based on two identified use cases, was also developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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21. Investigating the Potential of OpenStreetMap for Land Use/Land Cover Production: A Case Study for Continental Portugal.
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Estima, Jacinto and Painho, Marco
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- 2015
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22. Spatial Multi Criteria Decision Analysis Based Assessment of Land Value in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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Jayyousi, Majd, Estima, Jacinto, and Ghedira, Hosni
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- 2014
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23. The global solar and wind atlas.
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Estima, Jacinto, Fichaux, Nicolas, Menard, Lionel, and Ghedira, Hosni
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- 2013
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24. Flickr Geotagged and Publicly Available Photos: Preliminary Study of Its Adequacy for Helping Quality Control of Corine Land Cover.
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Estima, Jacinto and Painho, Marco
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- 2013
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25. Land Cover assessment using VGI.
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Estima, Jacinto Paulo SimÕes
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LAND cover ,DEFORESTATION ,CLIMATE change ,GEOGRAPHIC information systems ,LAND management - Abstract
Land Cover mapping plays a very important role on a vast number of research fields, such as land use monitoring and modeling, monitoring of tropical deforestation, climate changes, among others. Its production is based on imagery interpretation and classification made by highly trained and skilled people. One of the most important phases is the assessment phase, where groups of people goes to the field, which makes it a very expensive one. We believe that it is possible to use Volunteered Geographic Information to help in the assessment phase of the Land Cover mapping production, making it less expensive. Thus, a robust data model/system is needed for a proper management of this type of data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
26. Photo Based Volunteered Geographic Information Initiatives: A Comparative Study of their Suitability for Helping Quality Control of Corine Land Cover.
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Estima, Jacinto and Painho, Marco
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- 2014
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27. A Novel Deep Learning Approach Using Contextual Embeddings for Toponym Resolution.
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Cardoso, Ana Bárbara, Martins, Bruno, and Estima, Jacinto
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DEEP learning ,DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) ,LEXICON - Abstract
This article describes a novel approach for toponym resolution with deep neural networks. The proposed approach does not involve matching references in the text against entries in a gazetteer, instead directly predicting geo-spatial coordinates. Multiple inputs are considered in the neural network architecture (e.g., the surrounding words are considered in combination with the toponym to disambiguate), using pre-trained contextual word embeddings (i.e., ELMo or BERT) as well as bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory units, which are both regularly used for modeling textual data. The intermediate representations are then used to predict a probability distribution over possible geo-spatial regions, and finally to predict the coordinates for the input toponym. The proposed model was tested on three datasets used on previous toponym resolution studies, specifically the (i) War of the Rebellion, (ii) Local–Global Lexicon, and (iii) SpatialML corpora. Moreover, we evaluated the effect of using (i) geophysical terrain properties as external information, including information on elevation or terrain development, among others, and (ii) additional data collected from Wikipedia articles, to further help with the training of the model. The obtained results show improvements using the proposed method, when compared to previous approaches, and specifically when BERT embeddings and additional data are involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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28. Analysis of Open Government Data initiatives in Brazil
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Bittencourt, Cinthya Alcantara and Estima, Jacinto
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Open Data ,Transparency ,Democracy ,Electronic Government ,Open Government Data ,Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão [Domínio/Área Científica] - Abstract
The Open Data movement has been growing worldwide over the last decade following the crescent data production and technological evolution. This movement use Information and Communication Technologies to provide data in an available, interoperable, license-free, reusable and accessible way to everyone. The Open Data applied to government data relates to a subset called Open Government Data and has the potential to support better decisions and make governments more transparent, efficient, and accountable. Among some of the identified benefits that can be reached through Open Government Data are generate economic growth, motivate innovations, trigger social changes, stimulate citizen participation, thus promoting more democratic societies. The present study selected a set of Open Data requirements from the literature and characterized a collection of datasets from the main Brazilian Open Data government portals regarding their compliance with those requirements. The results showed that the analyzed datasets meet more than half of the requirements but are far from being fully compliant. These results can support government bodies in the identification of the gaps that need to be addressed to make Open Government Data initiatives more effective and harnessed to their full potential. O movimento de Dados Abertos tem crescido em todo o mundo ao longo da última década, acompanhando a crescente produção de dados e a evolução tecnológica. Este movimento utiliza as Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação para fornecer dados de forma disponível, interoperável, com licença livre, reutilizável e acessível a todos. Iniciativas de Dados Abertos aplicadas a dados do governo referem-se a um subconjunto chamado Dados Governamentais Abertos e tem o potencial de apoiar melhores decisões e tornar os governos mais transparentes, eficientes e responsáveis. Entre alguns dos potenciais benefícios identificados estão o impulsionamento do crescimento econômico, o desenvolvimento de inovações, o estímulo às mudanças sociais e à participação cidadã, promovendo, dessa forma, sociedades mais democráticas. O presente estudo identificou requisitos de Dados Abertos encontrados na literatura e caracterizou conjuntos de dados extraídos dos principais portais de Dados Abertos do governo brasileiro em relação à sua conformidade com esses requisitos. Os resultados mostraram que os conjuntos de dados analisados atendem a mais da metade dos requisitos, mas estão longe de apresentar 100% de conformidade. Esses resultados podem apoiar os órgãos governamentais na identificação das lacunas que precisam ser observadas para tornar as iniciativas da Dados Governamentais Abertos mais eficazes e aproveitadas em todo o seu potencial.
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- 2019
29. Analysis of panoramio photo tags in order to extract land use information
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Šecerov, Milan, Painho, Marco Octávio Trindade, Estima, Jacinto, Casteleyn, Sven, Universitat Jaume I. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, and Painho, Marco
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Land cover ,Photos ,Erasmus Mundus University Master's Degree in Geospatial Technologies ,Land use ,Geographic Information Systems ,Máster Universitario Erasmus Mundus en Tecnología Geoespacial ,Data Mining ,Màster Universitari Erasmus Mundus en Tecnologia Geoespacial ,Panoramio ,Predictive Modeling ,Tags ,User Generated Geographic Content - Abstract
Treball final de Màster Universitari Erasmus Mundus en Tecnologia Geoespacial. Codi: SIW013. Curs acadèmic 2014-2015 In the recent past, hardly anyone could predict this course of GIS development. GIS is moving from desktop to cloud. Web 2.0 enabled people to input data into web. These data are becoming increasingly geolocated. Big amounts of data formed something that is called "Big Data". Scientists still don't know how to deal with it completely. Different Data Mining tools are used for trying to extract some useful information from this Big Data. In our study, we also deal with one part of these data - User Generated Geographic Content (UGGC). The Panoramio initiative allows people to upload photos and describe them with tags. These photos are geolocated, which means that they have exact location on the Earth's surface according to a certain spatial reference system. By using Data Mining tools, we are trying to answer if it is possible to extract land use information from Panoramio photo tags. Also, we tried to answer to what extent this information could be accurate. At the end, we compared different Data Mining methods in order to distinguish which one has the most suited performances for this kind of data, which is text. Our answers are quite encouraging. With more than 70% of accuracy, we proved that extracting land use information is possible to some extent. Also, we found Memory Based Reasoning (MBR) method the most suitable method for this kind of data in all cases.
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- 2015
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