Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography: Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information for Environmental Monitoring, this article outlines an interesting concept involving the use of citizens volunteered GIS data or research. Not to get technical with the rhetoric, the authors propose that with the inclusion of public and private citizen volunteered data collection and research of non-expertise driven GIS users has the potential for leaps forward in GIS applications within many aspects of our lives.
A case study of OakMapper, a GIS style wed site is a hybrid, uniting several characteristic types of VGI (volunteered geographic information) and citizen science: targeted citizen-based observation networks, expert-driven focused environmental monitoring, and opportunistic crowdsourcing efforts to map a disease spreading throw the western part of the USA. This blended approach to citizen-based environmental monitoring enhances data flow and taps into exogenous data sources and they believe it is the future to large-scale environmental challenges.
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A case study of OakMapper, a GIS style wed site is a hybrid, uniting several characteristic types of VGI (volunteered geographic information) and citizen science: targeted citizen-based observation networks, expert-driven focused environmental monitoring, and opportunistic crowdsourcing efforts to map a disease spreading throw the western part of the USA. This blended approach to citizen-based environmental monitoring enhances data flow and taps into exogenous data sources and they believe it is the future to large-scale environmental challenges.
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