Using control data to determine the reliability of volunteered geographic information about land cover

被引:90
作者
Comber, Alexis [1 ]
See, Linda [2 ]
Fritz, Steffen [2 ]
Van der Velde, Marijn [2 ]
Perger, Christoph [2 ]
Foody, Giles [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Leicester, Dept Geog, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
[2] Int Inst Appl Syst Anal, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
[3] Univ Nottingham, Sch Geog, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION | 2013年 / 23卷
关键词
VGI; Accuracy; Geographically weighted models; User's; Producer's; Portmanteau and partial portmanteau accuracies; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; WEB; 2.0; VALIDATION; MAPS;
D O I
10.1016/j.jag.2012.11.002
中图分类号
TP7 [遥感技术];
学科分类号
081102 ; 0816 ; 081602 ; 083002 ; 1404 ;
摘要
There is much interest in using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in formal scientific analyses. This analysis uses VGI describing land cover that was captured using a web-based interface, linked to Google Earth. A number of control points, for which the land cover had been determined by experts allowed measures of the reliability of each volunteer in relation to each land cover class to be calculated. Geographically weighted kernels were used to estimate surfaces of volunteered land cover information accuracy and then to develop spatially distributed correspondences between the volunteer land cover class and land cover from 3 contemporary global datasets (GLC-2000, GlobCover and MODIS v.5). Specifically, a geographically weighted approach calculated local confusion matrices (correspondences) at each location in a central African study area and generated spatial distributions of user's, producer's, portmanteau, and partial portmanteau accuracies. These were used to evaluate the global datasets and to infer which of them was 'best' at describing Tree cover at each location in the study area. The resulting maps show where specific global datasets are recommended for analyses requiring Tree cover information. The methods presented in this research suggest that some of the concerns about the quality of VGI can be addressed through careful data collection, the use of control points to evaluate volunteer performance and spatially explicit analyses. A research agenda for the use and analysis of VGI about land cover is outlined. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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