Using crowdsourcing to interpret digital imagery
Project Number: 147
Year Funded: 2015
Lead Institution(s): US Fish and Wildlife Service
Project Lead: Emily Silverman
Collaborator(s): Joe Evanson (WDFW), Tim Jones (USFWS), Walt Rhodes (USFWS), Jeff Leirness (USFWS), John Pickering (U of Georgia), Sam Droege (USGS)
Location: North America
Focal Species: All Sea Ducks, Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola), Barrow’s Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica), Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula), Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis), Common Eider (Somateria mollissima), King Eider (Somateria spectabilis), Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri), Steller’s Eider (Polysticta stelleri), Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus), Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator), Black Scoter (Melanitta americana), Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata), White-winged Scoter (Melanitta delgandi)
Project Description: This project developed an experimental crowdsourcing site to review aerial sea duck survey photographs. The project team worked with DiscoverLife to load photos from the Sea Duck Aerial Survey Detectability Project to DiscoverLife, create a review-and-tag process, and determine the feasibility of tagging a large number of survey images.
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