CENTRE OF STUDIES FOR SURVEYING SCIENCE AND

GEOMATICS

COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT (KAB)

AP220 – BACHELOR OF SURVEYING SCIENCE & GEOMATICS

GSS613 – GEOSPATIAL
INFORMATICS

Task:
Assignment 1

Prepared for:
PROFESOR MADYA DR SITI AEKBAL BINTI SALLEH

Prepared by:

No. Name Student ID Group

1. MUHAMMAD MURSYID BIN MOHAMAD TAIB 2022786957 AP2205B

Date of Submission: 27th October 2022

Find any events or applications that can be benefited by using VGI and write a
250 words summary about it

Volunteered geographic records (VGI) refers to geo-referenced facts created with the
aid of using citizen volunteers. VGI has proliferated in current years because of the
development of technology that permit the general public to make contributions
geographic facts. VGI isn't always simplest an revolutionary mechanism for
geographic facts manufacturing and sharing, however additionally might also
additionally substantially impact GIScience and geography and its dating to society.
Despite the blessings of VGI, VGI facts exceptional is beneathneath steady scrutiny
as exceptional evaluation is the idea for customers to assess its health for the usage
of it in applications. Several standard techniques had been proposed to guarantee
VGI facts exceptional however only some techniques had been advanced to address
VGI biases. Analytical techniques which could accommodate the imperfect
representativeness and biases in VGI are a good deal wished for inferential use in
which the underlying phenomena of hobby are inferred from a pattern of VGI
observations. VGI use for inference and modeling provides a good deal price to VGI.
Therefore, addressing the problem of representativeness and VGI biases is critical to
meet VGI’s ability. Privacy and safety also are critical issues. Although VGI has been
used in lots of domains, extra studies is applicable to deal with the essential
highbrow and scholarly desires that persist withinside the field.VGI has numerous
blessings as an revolutionary mechanism of obtaining and compiling geographic
facts that would screen spatiotemporal dynamics of social and herbal phenomena.
First, VGI has the ability of presenting geographic facts over big areas, as human
footprints have reached a good deal of the world. OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia, and
eBird are all global-scale VGI tasks that assemble datasets throughout the entire
world. Moreover, VGI incorporates wealthy nearby records which could span a huge
temporal spectrum due to the fact residents as nearby specialists have collected
expertise in their environments over long term durations. As such, sightings of flora
and fauna in historic durations are used to examine habitat adjustments over time
(Zhang et al., 2018). VGI also can offer well timed up to date geographic records this
is tough to acquire thru conventional geographic facts series protocols (e.g.,
deliberate sampling, survey) however can without problems be accrued with the aid
of using citizen volunteers at the ground (e.g., harm reviews after a prime disaster).
Lastly, VGI functions a good deal decrease prices in comparison to conventional
facts series protocols. This has made it viable to supply big-scale geographic
datasets thru VGI initiatives (Sullivan et al., 2009).
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