Dr Amanda Chong’s research centred around voluntary geographic information (VGI) which is a computationally easy and inexpensive alternative approach to acquire geographic data and enables contributors to provide invaluable local knowledge of a given area to those who need it. Considering the lack of current authoritative data nationwide, crowdsourced VGI is a new and unique approach to gathering effective and valuable information for research and analysis. Amanda’s Masters research crowd-sourced building locations for use
in risk assessments into software such as PHOENIX RapidFire and compared the differences between the current method and the crowd-sourced building footprint centroids in residual risk calculations.
Amanda is now a Spatial Analyst with Arup’s Economics, Planning and Design team.
