Crowdsourcing In-Situ Data on Land Cover and Land Use Using Gamification and Mobile Technology

Crowdsourcing In-Situ Data on Land Cover and Land Use Using Gamification and Mobile Technology

Citizens are increasingly becoming involved in data collection, whether for scientific purposes, to carry out micro-tasks, or as part of a gamified, competitive application. In some cases, volunteered data collection overlaps with that of mapping agencies, e.g., the citizen-based mapping of features...

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Main Authors: Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Tobias Sturn, Christoph Perger, Martina Dürauer, Mathias Karner, Inian Moorthy, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Dahlia Domian, Ian McCallum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-11-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
crowdsourcing
citizen science
volunteered geographic information
photocaching
LUCAS
land cover
land use
gamification
mobile phones
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/11/905

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