Smartphone GPS tracking—Inexpensive and efficient data collection on recreational movement

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 157, Issue , 2017, Pages 608-617

  Korpilo, Silviya ^a   Virtanen, Tarmo ^a   Lehvävirta, Susanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

GIS; Off trail movement; Recreational use; Self tracking; Smartphone GPS tracking; Urban forests

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SMARTPHONES;

GPS TRACKING; OFF-TRAIL MOVEMENT; RECREATIONAL USE; SELF-TRACKING; URBAN FORESTS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOREST FLOOR; GIS; GPS; MOBILE PHONE; MOVEMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKING; URBAN FORESTRY;

FINLAND; HELSINKI; VARSINAIS-SUOMI;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 84991628253     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.08.005     Document Type: Article

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