Harnessing the power of volunteers, the internet and Google Earth to collect and validate global spatial information using Geo-Wiki

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 98, Issue , 2015, Pages 324-335

  See, Linda ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^a   Perger, Christoph ^a   Schill, Christian ^b   McCallum, Ian ^a   Schepaschenko, Dmitry ^a   Duerauer, Martina ^a   Sturn, Tobias ^a   Karner, Mathias ^a   Kraxner, Florian ^a   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Land cover; Land use; Validation; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOHAZARDS; DATA ACQUISITION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL POLICIES; CROWDSOURCING; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; LAND COVER; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; VALIDATION; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

LAND USE;

GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING; MODEL VALIDATION; SPATIAL DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84941025608     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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