Geoinformatics in Citizen Science

• Main Author: Bordogna, Gloria (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; education; geoinformatics; GIS education; classification accuracy; latent class analysis; location-based social networks (LBSNs); geoinformation in citizen science; toponym; recruitment; community mapping; user preference; land administration systems; positional accuracy; sample size; spatial proximity; crowdsourced geoinformation collection and analysis; air quality estimation; digital cartography; crowdsourcing; VGI in citizen science; crowdsourced data collection; social relationship effect; analysis; GIS; data quality; opportunistic data; volunteer; volunteered geographic information (VGI); VGI; data fusion; algorithms; OpenStreetMap; volunteer geographic information; citizen science; ensemble; spatial bias; projects survey; Alaska; marine mammal; brown marmorated stink bug; social media; Environmental niche modeling; data analysis; Pentatomidae; QGIS; MaxEnt; spatial accuracy; clustering; air pollution; data import; sky images
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical, technological, and social aspects of geoinformation methods, as applied to supporting citizen science. Specifically, the book focuses on the technological aspects of the field and their application toward the recruitme...