Local Knowledge and Professional Background Have a Minimal Impact on Volunteer Citizen Science Performance in a Land-Cover Classification Task

Local Knowledge and Professional Background Have a Minimal Impact on Volunteer Citizen Science Performance in a Land-Cover Classification Task

The idea that closer things are more related than distant things, known as ‘Tobler’s first law of geography’, is fundamental to understanding many spatial processes. If this concept applies to volunteered geographic information (VGI), it could help to efficiently allocate tasks in citizen science ca...

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Main Authors: Carl Salk, Tobias Sturn, Linda See, Steffen Fritz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
crowdsourcing
citizen science
data quality
Tobler’s Law
local knowledge
remote sensing
land cover
cropland
volunteered geographical information
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/9/774

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