Increasing the accuracy of crowdsourced information on land cover via a voting procedure weighted by information inferred from the contributed data

Foody, Giles; See, Linda; Fritz, Steffen; Moorthy, Inian; Perger, Christoph; Schill, Christian; Boyd, Doreen

doi:10.3390/ijgi7030080

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Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity (2018)
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The age of a building influences its form and fabric composition and this in turn is critical to inferring its energy performance. However, often this data is unknown. In this paper, we present a methodology to automatically identify the construction... Read More about Predicting residential building age from map data.

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Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation (2018)
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© 2018 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. The modifiable areal unit problem is prevalent across many aspects of spatial analysis within ecology and conservation. The p... Read More about Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation.

Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland (2018)
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Satellite Earth Observation (EO) is often used as a cost-effective method to report on the condition of remote and inaccessible peatland areas. Current EO techniques are primarily limited to reporting on the vegetation classes and properties of the i... Read More about Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland.

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Accurate estimation of above ground biomass (AGB) is required to better understand the variability and dynamics of tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) ecosystem function and resilience to disturbance events. The objective of this work is to examine the... Read More about Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning.

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Estimating residential building energy use across large spatial extents is vital for identifying and testing effective strategies to reduce carbon emissions and improve urban sustainability. This task is underpinned by the availability of accurate mo... Read More about Automated classification metrics for energy modelling of residential buildings in the UK with open algorithms.

Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8 (2018)
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The most recent Global Slavery Index estimates that there are 40.3 million people enslaved globally. The UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goal number 8, section 8.7 specifically refers to the issue of forced labour: ending modern slavery... Read More about Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8.

Increasing the accuracy of crowdsourced information on land cover via a voting procedure weighted by information inferred from the contributed data (2018)
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Simple consensus methods are often used in crowdsourcing studies to label cases when data are provided by multiple contributors. A basic majority vote rule is often used. This approach weights the contributions from each contributor equally but the c... Read More about Increasing the accuracy of crowdsourced information on land cover via a voting procedure weighted by information inferred from the contributed data.