Cidália Costa Fonte
University of Coimbra
77 Papers
193 Citations
Cidália Costa Fonte is an academic researcher from University of Coimbra. The author has contributed to research in topics: Volunteered geographic information & Land cover. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 71 publications. Previous affiliations of Cidália Costa Fonte include Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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Papers
Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation
Benjamin Bechtel,Paul J. Alexander,Christoph Beck,Jürgen Böhner,Oscar Brousse,Jason Ching,Matthias Demuzere,Cidália Costa Fonte,Tamás Gál,Julia Hidalgo,Peter Hoffmann,Ariane Middel,Gerald Mills,Chao Ren,Linda See,Panagiotis Sismanidis,Marie-Leen Verdonck,Guang Xu,Yong Xu +18 more
TL;DR: The protocol by which LCZ maps generated by different members of the community are produced and evaluated is outlined, which supports the assumption that the current level 0 products are already of sufficient quality for certain applications.
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Assessing VGI Data Quality
Cidália Costa Fonte,Vyron Antoniou,Lucy Bastin,Jacinto Estima,Jamal Jokar Arsanjani,Juan Carlos Laso Bayas,Linda See,Rumiana Vatseva +7 more
- 11 Sep 2017
TL;DR: Current data quality indicators for geographic information as part of the ISO 19157 (2013) standard and how these have been used to evaluate the data quality of VGI in the past are reviewed.
Mapping and the Citizen Sensor
Giles M. Foody,Linda See,Steffen Fritz,Peter Mooney,Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond,Cidália Costa Fonte,Vyron Antoniou +6 more
- 11 Sep 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on some of the key issues connected with the use of citizen sensors in mapping and explore issues linked to topics ranging from citizen motivation, data acquisition, data quality, and the usage of citizen derived data in the production of maps that rival, and sometimes surpass, maps arising from authoritative agencies.
Generating Up-to-Date and Detailed Land Use and Land Cover Maps Using OpenStreetMap and GlobeLand30
Cidália Costa Fonte,Marco Minghini,Joaquim Patriarca,Vyron Antoniou,Linda See,Andriani Skopeliti +5 more
TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the OSM can be converted into a LULC map and how this OSM-derivedLULC map can be used to first update the GL30 with more recent information and secondly, enhance the information content of the classes.
Comparison of ESA climate change initiative land cover to CORINE land cover over Eastern Europe and the Baltic States from a regional climate modeling perspective
TL;DR: The ESA CCI LC dataset is compared to the COoRdination and INformation on the Environment (CORINE) Land Cover (CLC) and agreement between the datasets is assessed by proportional area comparison (PAC).
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