Marie-Leen Verdonck

Ms. Marie-Leen Verdonck


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

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9 May 2017 in Urban Science
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BBBenjamin Bechtel
Benjamin Bechtel
MDMatthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere
PSPanagiotis Sismanidis
Panagiotis Sismanidis
DFDaniel Fenner
Daniel Fenner
OBOscar Brousse
Oscar Brousse
MVMarie-Leen Verdonck
Marie-Leen Verdonck
The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is a community initiative to collect worldwide data on urban form (i.e., morphology, materials) and function (i.e., use and metabolism). This is achieved through crowdsourcing, which we define here as the collection of data by a bounded crowd, composed of students. In this process, training data for the classification of urban structures into Local Climate Zones (LCZ) are obtained, which are, like most volunteered geographic information initiatives, of unknown quality. In this study, we investigated the quality of 94 crowdsourced training datasets for ten cities, generated by 119 students from six universities. The results showed large discrepancies and the resulting LCZ maps were mostly of poor to moderate quality. This was due to general difficulties in the human interpretation of the (urban) landscape and in the understanding of the LCZ scheme. However, the quality of the LCZ maps improved with the number of training data revisions. As evidence for the wisdom of the crowd, improvements of up to 20% in overall accuracy were found when multiple training datasets were used together to create a single LCZ map. This improvement was greatest for small training datasets, saturating at about ten to fifteen sets.

1 November 2019 in Journal of Environmental Management
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MVMarie-Leen Verdonck
Marie-Leen Verdonck
MDMatthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere
HHHans Hooyberghs
Hans Hooyberghs
FPFrederik Priem
Frederik Priem
Frieke Marthe Bert Van CoillieFrieke Marthe Bert Van Coillie
Frieke Marthe Bert Van Coillie