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Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information (2016)
Journal Article
Comber, A., Fonte, C., Foody, G. M., Fritz, S., Harris, P., Olteanu-Raimond, A.-M., & See, L. (in press). Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information. Geoinformatica Polonica, 20(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-016-0248-z

There is much interest in being able to combine crowdsourced data. One of the critical issues in information sciences is how to combine data or information that are discordant or inconsistent in some way. Many previous approaches have taken a majorit... Read More about Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information.

The scale of VGI in map production: a perspective of European National Mapping Agencies (2016)
Journal Article
Olteanu-Raimond, A.-M., Hart, G., Foody, G. M., Touya, G., Kellenberger, T., & Demetriou, D. (in press). The scale of VGI in map production: a perspective of European National Mapping Agencies. Transactions in GIS, https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12189

The perspective of European National Mapping Agencies (NMA) on the role of citizen sensing in map production was explored. The NMAs varied greatly in their engagement with the community generating volunteered geographic information (VGI) and in their... Read More about The scale of VGI in map production: a perspective of European National Mapping Agencies.

Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data (2015)
Journal Article
Costa, H., Foody, G. M., Jiménez, S., & Silva, L. (2015). Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(4),

Spatial records of species are commonly misidentified, which can change the predicted distribution of a species obtained from a species distribution model (SDM). Experiments were undertaken to predict the distribution of real and simulated species us... Read More about Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data.

Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality (2015)
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Foody, G. M., See, L., Fritz, S., van der Velde, M., Perger, C., Schill, C., …Comber, A. (2015). Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality. Cartographic Journal, 52(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/00087041.2015.1108658

Crowdsourcing is a popular means of acquiring data, but the use of such data is limited by concerns with its quality. This is evident within cartography and geographical sciences more generally, with the quality of volunteered geographic information... Read More about Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality.

An assessment of citizen contributed ground reference data for land cover map accuracy assessment (2015)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2015). An assessment of citizen contributed ground reference data for land cover map accuracy assessment. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2(3/W5), https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W5-219-2015

It is now widely accepted that an accuracy assessment should be part of a thematic mapping programme. Authoritative good or best practices for accuracy assessment have been defined but are often impractical to implement. Key reasons for this situatio... Read More about An assessment of citizen contributed ground reference data for land cover map accuracy assessment.

Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas (2015)
Journal Article
Feng, X., Foody, G., Aplin, P., & Gosling, S. (2015). Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas. Sustainable Cities and Society, 19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2015.04.007

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important environmental variable for urban studies such as those focused on the urban heat island (UHI). Though satellite-derived LST could be a useful complement to traditional LST data sources, the spatial resol... Read More about Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas.

Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps (2015)
Journal Article
Fonte, C., Bastin, L., See, L., Foody, G. M., & Lupia, F. (2015). Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2015.1018266

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) represents a growing source of potentially valuable data for many applications, including land cover map validation. It is still an emerging field and many different approaches can be used to take value from V... Read More about Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps.

Valuing map validation: the need for rigorous land cover map accuracy assessment in economic valuations of ecosystem services (2015)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2015). Valuing map validation: the need for rigorous land cover map accuracy assessment in economic valuations of ecosystem services. Ecological Economics, 111(March), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.003

Valuations of ecosystem services often use data on land cover class areal extent. Area estimates from land cover maps may be biased by misclassification error resulting in flawed assessments and inaccurate valuations. Adjustment for misclassification... Read More about Valuing map validation: the need for rigorous land cover map accuracy assessment in economic valuations of ecosystem services.

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change (2014)
Journal Article
Olofsson, P., Foody, G. M., Herold, M., Stehman, S. V., Woodcock, C. E., & Wulder, M. A. (2014). Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change. Remote Sensing of Environment, 148, 42-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.015

The remote sensing science and application communities have developed increasingly reliable, consistent, and robust approaches for capturing land dynamics to meet a range of information needs. Statistically robust and transparent approaches for asses... Read More about Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change.