<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br><p><span></span><span lang="\"EN-US\""><span>Dear Geo-Wiki Volunteer Citizens/Scientists!<br> <br> </span><b><span>We are pleased to announce that we have started a new competition at:<br>
</span></b></span><span lang="\"EN-US\""><a><b><span><span>http://competition.geo-wiki.org</span></span></b></a></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span lang="\"EN-US\"">The Geo-Wiki Project is specifically designed to help us in reducing the disagreement among global land cover products. The creation of a global hybrid land cover product is seen as a major step towards improvement in this field. The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who are helping to improve the quality of current global land cover maps.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span lang="\"EN-US\""><span>As an incentive we offer co-authorship of a research paper based on the competition results for the top 10 participants (based on a quality assessment and number of validations) and Amazon vouchers (totaling 75 Euros) for the top three participants! The competition will end on the 30</span></span><sup><span lang="\"EN-US\"">th</span></sup></span><span><span><span lang="\"EN-US\""> of March, 2012.<br>
<br> If you would like to participate in the competition please go to: </span><span lang="\"EN-US\""><a><span><span>http://competition.geo-wiki.org</span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span lang="\"EN-US\"">Detailed instructions are available on the site.<br> <br> Kind regards,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="\"EN-US\""><br><span> </span></span><span lang="\"EN-US\""><span><span>The Geo-Wiki Team</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="\"EN-US\"">APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING</span><span></span></p>
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