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COBWEBCitizens living within Biospheres to collect environmental data
FLAGISStudiedag 'Crowdsourcing - laat het volk
het werk doen!'
Bart De LathouwerOpen Geospatial Consortium
Essential context - WNBR
• UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programmes (MAB) World Network of Biosphere Reserves– Sites of excellence to foster harmonious integration
of people and nature for sustainable development through participation, knowledge sharing, poverty reduction and human well-being improvements, cultural values and society's ability to cope with change, thus contributing to the Millennium Development Goals
• 610 reserves in 117 countries
The bare bones…
• Research project started Nov 2012 for 4 yrs• Funded under the EC FP7• Crowdsourced environmental data
to aid decision making• Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty• Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data…• Security• Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives
– National SDI’s in UK, Greece and Germany– INSPIRE– GEOSS
Essential context - GEOSS
• COBWEB is obliged to work within GEOSS framework
• common methodologies and standards for data archiving, discovery and access
• Section on collaboration with GEOSS and FP7-ENV-2012 cluster projects added to project description
• “Data collected should be made available through the GEOSS without any restrictions”
• http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml
GEOSS
http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml
COBWEB - Project PartnersUniversity of Edinburgh UK (Scotland)
University of Nottingham UK (England)
Aberystwyth University UK (Wales)
Welsh Assembly Government UK (Wales)
Environment Systems Limited UK (Wales)
Ecodyfi UK (Wales)
Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) Ltd UK
University College Dublin Ireland
Technische Universitaet Dresden Germany
Secure Dimensions GmbH Germany
University of Western Greece Greece
OIKOM – Environmental Studies Ltd Greece
GeoCat BV Netherlands
FP7-ENV-2012 observatories
Name Lead Topic
Citclops Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic (Spain)
Coast and ocean
optical monitoring
WeSenseIt University of Sheffield (UK)
Water Management
CITI-SENSE Nilu (Norway) Air quality
Omniscientis Spacebel (Belgium) Odour monitoring
COBWEB UEDIN (UK) Various
Take away:
• Crowdsourcing– Quality measures and reduce uncertainty– Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data– Sensor Web / IoT / WoT– Security– Use of Open Standards– SDI, INSPIRE & GEOSS– Economically sustainable
– Society's ability to cope with change
