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Volunteered Geographic Information, Citizen Science and Machine Learning in the Service of Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 8 (2023): Issue 1
By: Vyron Antoniou  
Open Access
|Jun 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.568 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 29, 2022
Accepted on: Apr 14, 2023
Published on: Jun 27, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Sustainable Development Goals,
Sendai Framework,
volunteered geographic information,
citizen science,
machine learning

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