Citizen surveillance for environmental monitoring: combining the efforts of citizen science and crowdsourcing in a quantitative data framework

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Welvaert, Marijke ^a,b   Caley, Peter ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PLANT BIOSECURITY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Data generation process; Environmental statistics; General surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994056177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3583-5     Document Type: Review

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