Mapping human impact using crowdsourcing

Mapping Wilderness: Concepts, Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 89-101

  See, Linda ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^a   Perger, Christoph ^a   Schill, Christian ^a   Albrecht, Franziska ^a   McCallum, Ian ^a   Schepaschenko, Dmitry ^a   Van Der Velde, Marijn ^a   Kraxner, Florian ^a   Baruah, Ujjal Deka ^b   Saikia, Anup ^b   Singh, Kuleswar ^b   De Miguel, Sergio ^d,e   Hazarika, Rubul ^c   Sarkar, Ankita ^a   Marcarini, Abel Alan ^f   Baruah, Mrinal ^b   Sahariah, Dhrubajyoti ^b   Changkakati, Trishna ^b   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)   (Australia)

^b GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c B Borooah College   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^f AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Geo Wiki; Human footprint; Human impact; Land cover; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006716794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7399-7_6     Document Type: Chapter

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