Geo-Wiki: Engaing Citizens in Environmental Monitoring

The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additio...

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Main Author: Geo-Wiki Team
Format: Website
Language:Inglés
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68846
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description The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct or incorrect. Their input is recorded in a database, along with uploaded photos, to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map.
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spelling CGSpace688462024-07-29T19:31:00Z Geo-Wiki: Engaing Citizens in Environmental Monitoring Geo-Wiki Team climate change agriculture food security The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct or incorrect. Their input is recorded in a database, along with uploaded photos, to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map. 2009 2015-11-05T15:02:15Z 2015-11-05T15:02:15Z Website Wiki https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68846 en Open Access Geo-Wiki Team. 2009. Geo-Wiki: Engaing Citizens in Environmental Monitoring. Geo-Wiki Team. (http://www.geo-wiki.org/)
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Geo-Wiki: Engaing Citizens in Environmental Monitoring
title Geo-Wiki: Engaing Citizens in Environmental Monitoring
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