Citizen Science and Geospatial Capacity Building

Dear Colleagues,

Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) are gaining importance with the ubiquitous use of mobile technologies. In this new era, ordinary citizens may contribute to scientific processes based on their interest and abilities. The activities they may contribute to range from biology to environmental monitoring to classification of galaxies, all of which have a spatio-temporal dimension. The increasing demands on this research agenda are encouraging scientists from diverse backgrounds to collaborate under the term of “Citizen Science (CitSci)”. Geospatial tools and technologies enable many CitSci projects and also benefit from them. Geospatial capacity building, which is one of the main focus areas of ISPRS Commission V on Education and Outreach, also benefits from these developments. We propose here a Special Issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information on Citizen Science and Geospatial Capacity Building. This Special Issue emphasizes the increasing importance of citizen science in the scientific world as well as in supporting open science and open data for capacity building. We invite researchers to submit their works on Citizen Science and Geospatial Capacity Building. Research articles on citizen science and VGI that emphasize capacity building efforts, data quality, web and mobile GIS, web-based sharing of resources, crowdsourcing data collection methods, and geo-gamification are most welcome.

Dr. Sultan Kocaman
Dr. Sameer Saran
Dr. Murat Durmaz
Dr. A. Senthil Kumar
Guest Editors

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