Establishing a canonical procedure for collecting biodiversity information from citizen scientists using mobile phones

Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 157-165

  Osawa, Takeshi ^a   Yamanaka, Takehiko ^a   Nakatani, Yukinobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Citizen scientist; Exif information; Google Maps; Monitoring program

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903899956     PISSN: 13424327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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