Crowdsourcing is a tool for coordinating volunteer efforts to solve problems that are intractable by other means. Salk used the GeoWiki geographical crowd sourcing tool to generate better land cover maps at different scales. These maps will in turn be used to address a variety of problems, such as how much land is available for different human needs to how natural resource users cooperate to manage ecosystems.
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Funding: IIASA Postdoctoral Program
Nationality: American
Program: Ecosystem Services and Management Program
Dates: January 2014 – December 2015
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