Quality evaluation of VGI using authoritative data-a comparison with land use data in southern Germany

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1657-1671

  Dorn, Helen ^a   Törnros, Tobias ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATKIS Base DLM; Crowdsourced geoinformation; Data quality; Kappa; VGI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949058363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4031657     Document Type: Article

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