Citizen science is the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research to increase scientific knowledge. Through citizen science, people share and contribute to data monitoring and collection programs. Usually this participation is done as an unpaid volunteer.
Collaboration in citizen science involves scientists and researchers working with the public. Community-based groups may generate ideas and engage with scientists for advice, leadership, and program coordination. Interested volunteers, amateur scientists, students, and educators may network and promote new ideas to advance our understanding of the world.
Scientists may create a citizen-science program to capture more or more widely spread data without spending additional funding. They often work with community groups that are already collecting such information, such as plant or animal species or information about weather condition or natural hazard.
Some literature on citizen science in landslide investigation.
Conference Paper POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR LANDSLIDE HAZA...
Thank you very much Philips Omowumi Falae for your valuable reply and related paper.
𝗠. 𝗔𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶 you might be interested in what we are achieving with Citizen Science here in Australia!
We have 14 citizen science groups scattered along the Victorian coastline that actively (every 6 weeks) go to the beach and fly our drones to collect imagery for monitoring coastal erosion/deposition.
These people are non-technical people aware of the coastal issues and sensitive enough to commit their time for a good scientific cause.
We trained them and provided them with a set of drones, smart gcps and iPads and when we receive the raw data, we process it and publish DSM and orthophotos publicly in a webmapping portal!
We have now more than 70 datasets and it is not even the first year of a 3-year project.
Check this interview I made (in Italian)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/paolo.corradeghini/ep36-un-progetto-di-fotogrammetria-costi?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=user%3A9654458&utm_term=episode_title
where I talk about it or our website
https://www.marinemapping.org/vcmp-citizen-science
where you can also find the credentials for public access to the portal, to play with multitemporal coastal 3D models with 2.5cm definition!
CHeers,
Nick
𝗠. 𝗔𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶, I believe that our case is not a different game, it is just a different championship.
I totally admit that funds and fun are key here!
But that is the spirit of Citizen Science I believe. Government spend money for letting local people participate to a state-wide coastal monitoring project. Yes, it is a big effort in terms of time and initial investment, but in terms of outcomes, we do our science with a spatial extent and temporal resolution never achieved before (in terms of UAV data) and local people contribute to increase coastal awareness and environmental sensibility.
They have fun. We do science. We all win!
Cheers!
Nick
dear all,
find here an example of a Citizen Science approach used to study landslides (among other hazards) in a remote environment in Africa.
Article The geo-observer network: A proof of concept on participator...
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