Using image recognition to automate assessment of cultural ecosystem services from social media photographs

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 31, Issue , 2018, Pages 318-325

  Richards, Daniel R ^a   Tunçer, Bige ^a,b  

^a FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Recreation; Recreational ecosystem services; Singapore; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029485678     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.004     Document Type: Article

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