General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (External organisation)

Description

COST Action IC1203 - Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing

European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd.

New and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Since applications generating VGI are not often designed specifically for data production or analytical purposes, the Action aims at the following to fill this gap, recognizing the potential value of these sources to the EU in citizen-based decision making.


Management committee member (MC)

Body type: COST(European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

Period	5 Dec 2012 → 4 Dec 2016
Held at	General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Unknown
Degree of Recognition	International