Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example
GROW Observatory is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated ‘Citizen Observatory’ (CO) and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining...
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| author | Károly Zoltán Kovács Drew Hemment Mel Woods Naomi K. van der Velden Angelika Xaver Rianne H. Giesen Victoria J. Burton Natalie L. Garrett Luca Zappa Deborah Long Endre Dobos Rastislav Skalsky |
| author_facet | Károly Zoltán Kovács Drew Hemment Mel Woods Naomi K. van der Velden Angelika Xaver Rianne H. Giesen Victoria J. Burton Natalie L. Garrett Luca Zappa Deborah Long Endre Dobos Rastislav Skalsky |
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| description | GROW Observatory is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated ‘Citizen Observatory’ (CO) and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining beyond the life of the project. This article describes how the initial framework and tools were developed to evolve, bring together and train such a community; raising interest, engaging participants, and educating to support reliable observations, measurements and documentation, and considerations with a special focus on the reliability of the resulting dataset for scientific purposes. The scientific purposes of GROW observatory are to test the data quality and the spatial representativity of a citizen engagement driven spatial distribution as reliably inputs for soil moisture monitoring and to create timely series of gridded soil moisture products based on citizens’ observations using low cost soil moisture (SM) sensors, and to provide an extensive dataset of in situ soil moisture observations which can serve as a reference to validate satellite-based SM products and support the Copernicus in situ component. This article aims to showcase the initial steps of setting up such a monitoring network that has been reached at the mid-way point of the project’s funded period, focusing mainly on the design and development of the CO monitoring network. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-067891e2c32048feb893b52b6c384b842022-12-22T02:17:39ZengResearch Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungarian Geographical Bulletin2064-50312064-51472019-07-0168211913910.15201/hungeobull.68.2.21371Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW exampleKároly Zoltán Kovács0Drew Hemment1Mel Woods2Naomi K. van der Velden3Angelika Xaver4Rianne H. Giesen5Victoria J. Burton6Natalie L. Garrett7Luca Zappa8Deborah Long9Endre Dobos10Rastislav Skalsky11Institute of Geography and Geoinformatics. University of MiskolcUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of DundeePermaculture Association (Britain)Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU WienHydroLogic Research, Delft, The NetherlandsPermaculture Association (Britain)Met Office, United KingdomDepartment of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU WienUniversity of DundeeInstitute of Geography and Geoinformatics. University of MiskolcInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, AustriaGROW Observatory is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated ‘Citizen Observatory’ (CO) and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining beyond the life of the project. This article describes how the initial framework and tools were developed to evolve, bring together and train such a community; raising interest, engaging participants, and educating to support reliable observations, measurements and documentation, and considerations with a special focus on the reliability of the resulting dataset for scientific purposes. The scientific purposes of GROW observatory are to test the data quality and the spatial representativity of a citizen engagement driven spatial distribution as reliably inputs for soil moisture monitoring and to create timely series of gridded soil moisture products based on citizens’ observations using low cost soil moisture (SM) sensors, and to provide an extensive dataset of in situ soil moisture observations which can serve as a reference to validate satellite-based SM products and support the Copernicus in situ component. This article aims to showcase the initial steps of setting up such a monitoring network that has been reached at the mid-way point of the project’s funded period, focusing mainly on the design and development of the CO monitoring network.http://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/1371citizen sciencecitizen observatorycrowdsourced datasoil moisture monitoring |
| spellingShingle | Károly Zoltán Kovács Drew Hemment Mel Woods Naomi K. van der Velden Angelika Xaver Rianne H. Giesen Victoria J. Burton Natalie L. Garrett Luca Zappa Deborah Long Endre Dobos Rastislav Skalsky Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example Hungarian Geographical Bulletin citizen science citizen observatory crowdsourced data soil moisture monitoring |
| title | Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example |
| title_full | Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example |
| title_fullStr | Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example |
| title_full_unstemmed | Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example |
| title_short | Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example |
| title_sort | citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring the grow example |
| topic | citizen science citizen observatory crowdsourced data soil moisture monitoring |
| url | http://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/1371 |
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