Citizen science land cover classification based on ground and aerial imagery

Kevin Sparks*, Alexander Klippel, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, David Mark

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Abstract

If citizen science is to be used in the context of environmental research, there needs to be a rigorous evaluation of humans’ cognitive ability to interpret and classify environmental features. This research, with a focus on land cover, explores the extent to which citizen science can be used to sense and measure the environment and contribute to the creation and validation of environmental data. We examine methodological differences and humans’ ability to classify land cover given different information sources: a ground-based photo of a landscape versus a ground and aerial based photo of the same location. Participants are solicited from the online crowdsourcing platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results suggest that across methods and in both ground-based, and ground and aerial based experiments, there are similar patterns of agreement and disagreement among participants across land cover classes. Understanding these patterns is critical to form a solid basis for using humans as sensors in earth observation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpatial Information Theory
Subtitle of host publicationCOSIT 2015
EditorsScott Freundshuh, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Clare Davies, Scott Bell, Michela Bertolotto, Martin Raubal
PublisherSpringer
Pages289-305
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783319233741
ISBN (Print)9783319233734
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2015 - Santa Fe, United States
Duration: 12 Oct 201516 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9368
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference/symposium

Conference/symposium12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Fe
Period12/10/1516/10/15

Keywords

  • Citizen science
  • Classification
  • Land cover

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