Citizen use of mobile phones and associated web services to gather imagery and related information for "participatory" environmental monitoring, with applications such as invasive species.
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), UCLA; Primary funding from NSF.
Participatory sensing systems leverage both mobile phones and web services to offer unprecedented observational capacity—they are remarkably scalable and affordable with a rich user interface and easy programmability. Additionally, there is a wide proliferation of cellular phone infrastructure and consumer devices that incorporate location services such as GPS, digital imagers, accelerometers, and Bluetooth access to off-board sensors. These systems can be leveraged by scientists and communities to address a range of scientific and social observational needs. As an example see http://whatsinvasive.com, a citizen science campaign for collecting information on invasive plant species. The software used to create this campaign is available at http://participatorysensing.org.
To be posted when available.
| Project Leads | Dr. Eric Graham (egraham@cens.ucla.edu) Prof. Deborah Estrin (destrin@cs.ucla.edu) |
| Project Websites | http://participatorysensing.org/ http://whatsinvasive.com/ |
Mobile phone client for collecting locations of invasive plant species in the Santa Monica Mountains. Species lists are automatically downloaded depending on location.
Website for viewing, editing, and sharing the mobile phone-collected invasive species data.
Students on a trial plant identification campaign using mobile phones text and image capture for data collection.
