Where 2.0 Australia's environment? Crowdsourcing, volunteered geographic information, and citizens acting as sensors for environmental sustainability

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1058-1076

  Clark, Alister ^a  

^a University of Tasmania   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizens as sensors; Crowdsourcing; Environmental information; Environmental sustainability; Geospatial Web 2.0; GeoWeb 2.0; Social media; Volunteered geographic information; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948738810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi3031058     Document Type: Review

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