Virtual Identification, Public Engagement and 3D Cadastral Systems

摘要

The research articles included in the third issue of volume four of the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) cover three methodological issues in the field of Urban e-Planning: the virtual identification of dwelling characteristics in urban areas; public engage-mentthrough online and mobile crowdsourcing in emergency response; and the integration of legal aspects in 3D cadastral systems. In the first article, 'Virtual Identification of Dwelling Characteristics Online for Analysis of Urban Resource Consumption', Maryam Saydi and Ian Bishop introduce an original technique, still in a relatively early stage of development, to assess dwelling characteristics as predictors of residential energy and water demand. Although traditional data collection methods have been used in the past to collect data on the impact of dwelling structure on residential energy and water consumption, an increasingly important issue in recent decades, and expected to be even more important in the future due to the effects of climate change, virtual identification techniques may well replace or complement traditional data collection methods, as data can be collected more easily, saving time and travel costs when compared to the traditional data collection methods. The authors are well aware of issues related to the validity of the data collected through VIDCO an issue discussed in the article.