GNSS has become ubiquitous in high-precision applications, although the cost of high-end
GNSS receivers remains a major obstacle for many applications. Recent advances in GNSS …

In recent years, due to an increasing number of extreme meteorological events potentially
related to climate change, a growing attention has been paid to the operational use of …

Rapidly estimating post-disaster building damage via high-resolution remote sensing
(HRRS) imagery is essential for initial disaster relief. However, the complex appearance of …

Data crowdsourcing is one of most remarkable results of pervasive and internet connected
low-power devices making diverse and different “things” as a world wide distributed system …

Nowadays, the availability of affordable multi-constellation multi-frequency receivers has
broadened access to accurate positioning. The abundance of satellite signals coupled with …

ABSTRACT A protocol for assessing the quality of digital geospatial data is applied to
samples of volunteered geographic information (created by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap …

Crowdsourcing has become a popular means to acquire data about the Earth and its
environment inexpensively, but the data-sets obtained are typically imperfect and of …

Historical landscapes in Italy have been slowly changing over the centuries and this is
because their features, once fixed into specific shapes, were perpetuated until new …

The Haiti 2010 earthquake is one of the first major disasters in which very high resolution
satellite and airborne imagery was embraced to delineate the event impact. Several rapid …

In recent years natural-and human-induced hazards have turned into disasters with rising
frequency and intensity. These disasters pose threats to prominent cultural and natural …