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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 6, Issue 7

July 2017 - 45 articles

Cover Story: We present the results of an experiment into Participatory Land Administration (PLA), a VGI application, on customary lands. PLA connects emerging technologies to meet the current societal needs on customary lands, balancing the traditional government-led land administration with the emerging crowd-sourced land administration. The experiment is conducted in Nanton, a village in Ghana that needs a land administration system. The process was developed by the local farmers together with professionals based on the available technology and the local needs, in this case land consolidation. The experiment involved collecting farmland information over a two-week period based on PLA. Though the results show that PLA is faster, cheaper and can potentially support land consolidation, further investigation is needed for integration into the formal land administration system. View the paper
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Articles (45)

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,068 Views
17 Pages

Landslide susceptibility mapping is the first and most important step involved in landslide hazard assessment. The purpose of the present study is to compare three nonlinear approaches for landslide susceptibility mapping and test whether coal mining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,876 Views
15 Pages

Integrated pest management (IPM) involves integrating multiple pest control methods based on site information obtained through inspection, monitoring, and reports. IPM has been deployed to achieve the judicious use of pesticides and has become one of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,951 Views
16 Pages

FOSS Tools and Applications for Education in Geospatial Sciences

  • Marco Ciolli,
  • Bianca Federici,
  • Ilaria Ferrando,
  • Roberto Marzocchi,
  • Domenico Sguerso,
  • Clara Tattoni,
  • Alfonso Vitti and
  • Paolo Zatelli

While the theory and implementation of geographic information systems (GIS) have a history of more than 50 years, the development of dedicated educational tools and applications in this field is more recent. This paper presents a free and open source...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,361 Views
16 Pages

Collaborative Geodesign and Spatial Optimization for Fragmentation-Free Land Allocation

  • Yiqun Xie,
  • Bryan C. Runck,
  • Shashi Shekhar,
  • Len Kne,
  • David Mulla,
  • Nicolas Jordan and
  • Peter Wiringa

Demand for agricultural food production is projected to increase dramatically in the coming decades, putting at risk our clean water supply and prospects for sustainable development. Fragmentation-free land allocation (FF-LA) aims to improve returns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,150 Views
20 Pages

This study proposes an innovative integrated method for evaluating the evacuation and rescue capabilities of open spaces through a case study in Wuhan, China. A dual-scenario network analysis model was set up to calculate travel time among communitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,432 Views
20 Pages

Overview of the Croatian Land Administration System and the Possibilities for Its Upgrade to 3D by Existing Data

  • Nikola Vučić,
  • Miodrag Roić,
  • Mario Mađer,
  • Saša Vranić and
  • Peter Van Oosterom

This paper explores the laws and other legal acts related to the Croatian 3D cadastre with an emphasis on those which relate to interests in strata, spatial planning, and other regulations that are valid or were valid on Croatian territory. The effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
11,530 Views
21 Pages

Accuracy Improvement of DGPS for Low-Cost Single-Frequency Receiver Using Modified Flächen Korrektur Parameter Correction

  • Jungbeom Kim,
  • Junesol Song,
  • Heekwon No,
  • Deokhwa Han,
  • Donguk Kim,
  • Byungwoon Park and
  • Changdon Kee

A differential global positioning system (DGPS) is one of the most widely used augmentation systems for a low-cost L1 (1575.42 MHz) single-frequency GPS receiver. The positioning accuracy of a low-cost GPS receiver decreases because of the spatial de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,565 Views
18 Pages

Over the past few years, Earth Observation (EO) has been continuously generating much spatiotemporal data that serves for societies in resource surveillance, environment protection, and disaster prediction. The proliferation of EO data poses great ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,130 Views
25 Pages

Robust Indoor Mobile Localization with a Semantic Augmented Route Network Graph

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Xianwei Zheng,
  • Hanjiang Xiong and
  • Ruizhi Chen

In recent years, using smartphones to determine pedestrian locations in indoor environments is an extensively promising technique for improving context-aware applications. However, the applicability and accuracy of the conventional approaches are sti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,088 Views
13 Pages

Robust and Parameter-Free Algorithm for Constructing Pit-Free Canopy Height Models

  • Chuanfa Chen,
  • Yifu Wang,
  • Yanyan Li,
  • Tianxiang Yue and
  • Xin Wang

Data pits commonly appear in lidar-derived canopy height models (CHMs) owing to the penetration ability of airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) into tree crowns. They have a seriously negative effect on the quality of tree detection and subse...

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ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. - ISSN 2220-9964