21 February 2013
IIASA Geo-Wiki group wins best paper award
IIASA Ecosystems Services & Management Program researchers Steffen Fritz, Iain McCallum, Christoph Perger, Florian Kraxner, and Michael Obersteiner were co-authors on the paper, "Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Landcover," which was published in 2009 in the journal Remote Sensing. The paper was awarded 2nd place in Remote Sensing's Best Paper Award for 2013.
The Geo-Wiki project brings together a global network of volunteers working to improve global land-cover data, which is vital for research as well as helping to solve problems such as land grabbing in Africa.
Reference
Fritz, Steffen; McCallum, Ian; Schill, Christian; Perger, Christoph; Grillmayer, Roland; Achard, Frédéric; Kraxner, Florian; Obersteiner, Michael. 2009. "Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover." Remote Sens. 1, no. 3: 345-354.
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon
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