Comber, Alexis and Brunsdon, Chris and See, Linda and Fritz, Steffen and McCallum, Ian
(2013)
Comparing Expert and Non-expert
Conceptualisations of
the Land: An Analysis
of Crowd sourced Land Cover Data.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2013, COSIT 2013, 8116.
pp. 243-260.
ISSN 978-3-319-01790-7
Abstract
This research compares expert and non-expert conceptualisations of
land cover data collected through a Google Earth web-based interface. In so
doing it seeks to determine the impacts
of varying landscape conceptualisations
held by different groups of VGI contributors on decisions that may be
made using crowdsourced data, in this
case to select the best global land
cover dataset in each location. Whilst much other work has considered the
quality of VGI, as yet little research has considered the impact of varying
semantics and conceptualisations on the use of VGI in formal scientific
analyses. This study found that conceptualisation of cropland varies between
experts and non-experts. A number of areas for further research are outlined.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
olunteered Geographical Information (VGI); Land Cover;
Geo-Wiki; Geographically Weighted Kernel; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG |
| Item ID: |
5894 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Chris Brunsdon
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| Date Deposited: |
21 May 2015 13:13 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2013, COSIT 2013 |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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