Wildlife/Roadkill Observation and Reporting Systems

Handbook of Road Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 492-501

  Shilling, Fraser ^a   Perkins, Sarah E ^b   Collinson, Wendy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ENDANGERED WILDLIFE TRUST   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Big data; Informatics; Observation; Safety; Volunteer science; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANIMALS; BIG DATA; DATA ACQUISITION; VISUALIZATION; WEBSITES;

DATA COLLECTION METHOD; INFORMATICS; OBSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION; VOLUNTEER SCIENCE; WEB-BASED INFORMATION TOOLS; WILDLIFE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84977072604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118568170.ch62     Document Type: Chapter

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