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Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-354

  Fritz, Steffen ^a   McCallum, Ian ^a   Schill, Christian ^b   Perger, Christoph ^c   Grillmayer, Roland ^c   Achard, Frédéric ^d   Kraxner, Florian ^a   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WIENER NEUSTADT   (Austria)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Land cover; Validating land cover; Volunteer geographic information; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROWDSOURCING; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF RELIABILITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GLOBAL NETWORKS; GLOBAL VALIDATION; HOT SPOT; INTERNET USERS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER MAPS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; WEB 2.0;

ECOSYSTEMS; INTERNET; REMOTE SENSING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 70449402784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1030345     Document Type: Letter

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