simulation – Citizen Science Today

Crowdsourcing User-Generated Mobile Sensor Weather Data for Densifying Static Geosensor Networks

Shay Sosko and Sagi Dalyot — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:00:44 +0000

Abstract: Static geosensor networks are comprised of stations with sensor devices providing data relevant for monitoring environmental phenomena in their geographic perimeter. Although early warning systems for disaster management rely on data retrieved from these networks, some limitations exist, largely in terms of insufficient coverage and low density. Crowdsourcing user-generated data is emerging as a...

Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as a Classification Problem with Class-conditional Noise

Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Liqiang He, and Sarah C. Emerson — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:00:24 +0000

Abstract: Species distribution models relate the geographic occurrence pattern of a species to environmental features and are used for a variety of scientific and management purposes. One source of data for building species distribution models is citizen science, in which volunteers report locations where they observed (or did not observe) sets of species. Since volunteers...