Dr. Steffen Fritz is Deputy Program Director of the Ecosystem Services and Management (ESM) Program, and Leader of the Earth Observation and Citizen Science (EOCS) Research Group. He joined IIASA in 2007, and since then has become the initiator and driving force behind the Geo-Wiki.org, a global land cover and land use validation tool that aims to investigate and reduce the uncertainties in global land cover data via citizen science.
The research interests of Dr. Fritz include earth observation, citizen science, crowdsourcing, volunteered geographical information, food security, land-use science, global and regional vegetation monitoring, crop yield and crop acreage estimations of agricultural crops, serious gaming, gamification, and in-situ data collection of land-use and land cover via mobile technologies, as well as citizen science for SDG monitoring and implementation.
Citizens Generating Reference Land Cover and Land Use Data with a Mobile App
