volunteer mapping for deforestation

Volunteer mapping for deforestation

Nicolas Maisonneuve, Peter Amoako Yirenkyi and Daniel Lombraña González

Maps are vital for humans

by the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands (no known copyright restrictions)

Maps are vital for humans

by The National Archives UK ("no known copyright restrictions)

Why Volunteer mapping?

Volunteers can help to improve maps 

Current challenges1 - Data quality, accuracy and reliability

by Jeff Shermann CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Current challenges

2- Volunteers organization

by Cheuk-man Kong CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Cybermappr: a research project

Cybermappr: a research project

Components to improve data quality: Volunteer organization: task driven vs. spontaneous Training people Rewarding good contributions  Data acquisition on the field with mobile platforms

Cybermappr example use case

Damage assessments

by Público and Google

Cybermappr framework

User Interface

Research: Improving data qualityExperiment 1: Parallelization

Research: Improving data quality

Experiment 2: Iteration

Research: Rewarding contributions

HP Gloe is a geo-located web content discovery tooland contribution system for smart phones

by Mikael Ganehag Brorsson, Public Domain.

Gloe: Rewarding good contributions

by Darren Hester CC BY-NC 2.0.

Virtual budget to invest. 

Good recommendations: Budget increases. My reputation improves.

  Applied to map contributions,

discoveries, tasks, etc. 

Meritocracy.

Conclusions

The Citizen Cyberscience Centre is trying to: Build a new volunteer mapping framework, Research on:

Data quality Volunteer organization Training people Rewarding good contributions Data acquisition on the field with mobile platforms

Future project: deforestation

by Google

Questions?

teleyinex@gmail.comPhotos, images by Flickr Creative Commons community, Open Clipart library and GNOME desktop, except where mentioned.