Volunteered Geographic Information and the Future of Geospatial Data (Advances in Geospatial Technologies)

"This book covers the main fundamentals, applications and the current challenges of VGI. It examines how such assertive method of collecting geospatial information can be complementary to authoritative methods employed by government agencies and private industry, how can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks, and how to deal with VGI preservation"--

Claudio Campelo is a Lecturer in the Systems and Computing Department at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG/Brazil). He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Computing at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) and holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the Systems and Computing Department at UFCG/Brazil. He is currently the department head of the undergraduate program in computer science. His current research interests include topics in data modelling, knowledge representation, information retrieval, handling of conceptual vagueness, and user-aware/context-aware systems. He is particularly interested in spatial and spatio-temporal information: modelling geospatial semantics; event/process modelling; trajectory modelling and prediction; Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR); and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).