Building a crowd-sourcing tool for the validation of urban extent and gridded population

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6783 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 39-50

  Fritz, Steffen ^a   See, Linda ^a   McCallum, Ian ^a   Schill, Christian ^a,b   Perger, Christoph ^c   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WIENER NEUSTADT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Crowd sourcing; Google Earth; land cover validation; urban areas

Indexed keywords

CROWD-SOURCING; DATA SETS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; GOOGLE EARTH; IN-SITU; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; MODULARIZED; POPULATION DATA; URBAN AREAS; VALIDATION DATA; GOOGLE EARTHS;

LANDFORMS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CROWDSOURCING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 79960304571     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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