Introduction

LACO-Wiki is an open access online tool for land cover validation. This document provides an overview of the basic functionality of LACO-Wiki and guides you through uploading and validating a data set.

LACO-Wiki enables you to set-up statistically robust sampling designs and then visually interpret the samples in a user-friendly environment. You can then generate state-of-the-art accuracy reports for communication to map users.

The tool also includes data management and sharing functionality so that every data set uploaded or generated in LACO-Wiki can be managed by you and shared with other users.

Key Features

LACO-Wiki offers:

  1. A single online access point for the complete map validation process.

  2. A user-friendly environment to upload new maps and create sampling designs.

  3. State-of-the-art accuracy reports generated with just a few clicks.

  4. Easy access to shared data sets and validation sessions, allowing users to share the workload with other people in their team so that multiple people can validate a set of samples at the same time.

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