Benefits of crowd-sourced GPS information for modelling the recreation ecosystem service.

ABSTRACT: Modelling cultural ecosystem services is an enduring challenge, raising issues about the integration and spatialization of immaterial values and benefits, and their contingency on local preferences. Building on the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum framework, we present a novel methodology for assessing the recreation service using GPS tracks downloaded from crowd-sourced websites: the Grelou model (Georeferencing REcreation in Local OUtdoors), here applied to the Grenoble living area (French Alps). GPS tracks revealed the complete spatial extent of visitor presence and enabled modelling visitation networks for ten recreation activities with great spatial accuracy, thus providing a spatial estimate of recreational multifunctionality-expressed as the sum of networks. After coupling track netw

SUBMITTER: Byczek C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6188625 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature