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SUBMITTER: Wood SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3797992 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wood Spencer A SA Guerry Anne D AD Silver Jessica M JM Lacayo Martin M
Scientific reports 20131017
Scientists have traditionally studied recreation in nature by conducting surveys at entrances to major attractions such as national parks. This method is expensive and provides limited spatial and temporal coverage. A new source of information is available from online social media websites such as flickr. Here, we test whether this source of "big data" can be used to approximate visitation rates. We use the locations of photographs in flickr to estimate visitation rates at 836 recreational sites ...[more]