Crowdsourcing Social Media to Validate Land Use and Land Cover Maps
In 2011, the number of smartphone users in the US was closing in on 100 million, making up about 40% of the mobile phone market. Most late-model smartphones come embedded with megapixel-resolution cameras and GPS technology. Additionally, there are a plethora of mobile applications (apps) running location-based services (LBS) such as Twitter, Geoloqi and Foursquare. In fact, several [...]
There are presently a several sources for open access geospatial data that enhance the capability of researchers and conservationists in providing rapid analysis of anthropogenic phenomena and monitoring species dynamics. For example, the 2009 pan-European land cover and use project (GlobCorine) was completed in under nine months, demonstrating that automated production of a general purpose [...]
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