Geo-Wiki branches

You find a list of available Geo-Wiki branches below. Thesebranches are accessible through the Branch chooser dropdown in the top left corner of the Application.

Main Geo-Wiki

This is the original branch of geo-wiki. If you don't know where to start, start here. This branch has no special interest in any particular land cover type, but collects validation information for the three global land cover products GLC-2000, MODIS v.5 and GlobCover 2005. This input is recorded in a database, to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map.

AusCover Geo-Wiki

AusCover Geo-Wiki, is providing an online and mobile means to test and validate maps of land-cover and biophysical variables. It allows “citizen-scientists” and volunteers to view, with Google Earth as a backdrop, these maps in real time, and apply their local area knowledge to determine if the classification is correct or incorrect. read more

Livestock Geo-Wiki

Geo-Wiki is being used to provide a central repository for global maps of livestock distributions and production systems from the International Livestock Research Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organisation. read more

SIGMA Geo-Wiki

SIGMA is part of the EC contribution to GEOGLAM and addresses some of the key challenges within global agriculture monitoring, as set by the GEO Agricultural Community of Practice to support the G20.

Geography Geo-Wiki

Geography Geo-Wiki has been modified specifically for use in undergraduate class assignments at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Tools were provided to encourage the student to observe environmental processes or features that were covered in class, document these features with photography, and to discuss how they affected their daily activity. These files were geo-located and posted to the Geography Geo-Wiki site to be reviewed by other members of the class.

In addition to those branches, there are the following two branches, that are accessible using the respective link:

Biomass Geo-Wiki

Biomass Geo-Wiki has collected a comprehensive set of recent biomass data from around the globe, and makes it freely available for visualization. Users are provided with an instant global overview of available datasets, overlaid on the Google Earth platform with comparable units. This provides an instant gap analysis of global data.
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Cities Geo-Wiki

Cities Geo-Wiki is specifically focused on collecting information about Local Climate Zones (LCZs), which have been developed by Stewart and Oke (2012). Using volunteers, we hope to classify urban areas around the world into LCZs. This information will help to improve the parameterization of urban areas in global and regional climate models since they have a potentially large effect on climate in the future, especially with rapid changes in urbanization.
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