Citizen Science and Earth Observation II
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 44824
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Interests: remote sensing; cropland; crowdsourcing; mapping uncertainty; climate change; agricultural monitoring
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Interests: spatial data validation and quality assessment; land use land cover mapping; volunteered geographic information; spatial data integration; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The term citizen science is used when scientific work is performed partially, or completely, by volunteers, which are usually non-experts. During the last decade, citizen science and projects that are based on user-generated content have increased dramatically. Citizen science in the field of Earth observation has started more recently and a number of projects have evolved which involve citizens in monitoring the environment. Furthermore, citizen-based observations can support earth observation in a number of different fields such as climate change, sustainable development, drought monitoring, land cover or land-use change. Moreover, there is the potential to use citizen-based observations in combination with other currently increasing earth observation data from new sensors such as the Sentinel family of satellites and Landsat. In particular, in situ data provided by citizens can be used for calibration and validation activities, as well as the conflation or combined use of satellite and citizen observations.
In 2016, we edited a Special Issue of Remote Sensing that presented a broad view of the state-of-the-art in Citizen Science and Earth Observation; it is now time to revisit the topic. The proposed Special Issue welcomes contributions in the field of Earth observation and its applications with respect to:
- Methods for citizen-based data collection
- Innovative use of citizen observations
- Mobilization of citizens
- Combined use of satellite and citizen-based observations
- Contributions of citizen observations to support authoritative data
- Quality of citizen-based observations
- Data conflation and data mining
- Contributions of citizen observations to support the sustainable development goals
Dr. Steffen Fritz
Dr. Cidália Costa Fonte
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- citizen science
- applications of earth observations
- crowdsourcing
- map validation
- data quality
- user generated content
- incentives to mobilize the crowd
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