volunteer mapping for deforestation
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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?
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