On data quality assurance and conflation entanglement in crowdsourcing for environmental studies

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3W5, 2015, Pages 195-202

  Leibovici, D G ^a   Evans, B ^b   Hodges, C ^b   Wiemann, S ^c   Meek, S ^a   Rosser, J ^a   Jackson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citizen Science; Crowdsourcing; Data Conflation; Data Curation; Data Fusion; Data Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994343806     PISSN: 21949042     EISSN: 21949050     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W5-195-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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