Interpretation keys, also called photo interpretation keys, offer a powerful tool to create consensus, documentation, and institutional knowledge. Interpretation keys are used by teams around the world in order to successfully collect data in CEO.
Category: Thought Leadership
CEO paper wins multiple awards
The Collect Earth Online (CEO) team is pleased to share that the manuscript Collect Earth: An online tool for systematic reference data collection in land cover and use applications has won multiple prestigious awards.
FAO uses CEO to reveal the impact of agricultural expansion on tropical rainforests
Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uncover the causes of deforestation around the world.
Using CEO to Estimate the Area of Crop Expansion into the Forests of Southeast Asia
A new USAID-funded study used Collect Earth Online (CEO) to devise a novel solution to the thorny problem of estimating the area devoted to specific crops, as well as the area of forest loss. The research should help improve estimates of carbon storage and loss in developing countries.