An assessment of the accuracy of volunteered road map production in western Kenya

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-256

  de Leeuw, Jan ^a   Said, Mohammed ^a   Ortegah, Lapezoh ^a,b   Nagda, Sonal ^a   Georgiadou, Yola ^c   DeBlois, Mark ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UPANDE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Map accuracy; Participatory mapping; Spatial cognition; Topographic map; Volunteered geo information

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; GEO-INFORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; LOCAL PEOPLE; PARTICIPATORY MAPPING; ROAD INFRASTRUCTURES; ROAD-MAPS; SPATIAL COGNITION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; URBAN AREAS; WEB BASED;

MAPS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURVEYING; USER INTERFACES;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 80051866819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3020247     Document Type: Article

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