Integrating drones, participatory mapping and GIS to enhance resiliency for remote villages
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2021-12-15
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Indigenous communities in developing regions are impacted by frequent disasters and the erosion of their culture with the trend of modernization. Additionally, their efforts to reduce risk have been hampered by the fact that these communities lack a sufficiently detailed map of their territories. In the absence of professional surveying instruments and costly high-resolution satellite imagery, this study uses drone-captured imagery, participatory methods, and GIS to produce the first publicly accessible infrastructure and resource data set for indigenous communities in southwest China. The resulting maps enable the data-poor indigenous communities to be aware of their housing fire risk, historical building preservation status, and potential economic resources such as tourist attractions. The maps created are expected to build resiliency in these communities which is of significance to many hard-to-reach communities around the world for disaster prevention, economic planning, and cultural preservation.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Li, Q., & Deliberty, T. (2021). Integrating drones, participatory mapping and GIS to enhance resiliency for remote villages. Transactions in GIS, 00, 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12886, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12886. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
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Li, Q., & Deliberty, T. (2021). Integrating drones, participatory mapping and GIS to enhance resiliency for remote villages. Transactions in GIS, 00, 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12886