The Water-ForCE project team invites you to join this workshop about the role of citizen science in calibrating and validating Copernicus water data.
May 16th, 2022 13:00 CEST | Online | Free registration
In situ data acquisition is an expensive process that needs high-frequency and broad spatial coverage to be fully useful in remote sensing calibration and/or validation exercises. An important new source of spatially intensive data acquisition, crowd sourcing by ordinary people has been developed in previous projects within the EU by, among other things, the development of tools and citizen observatories solutions.
Citizen Science
We will hear the experiences of Citizen Science tools developers and users and experts, as a basis for discussion during our expert panel time afterwards.
Our aim is to fully explore the possibilities of Citizen Science for calibration and validation of Copernicus water quality and quantity products, focused in the identification of:
- Opportunities/potential for Cal/Val
- Gaps & problems Identified
- Needs
- Data Quality, format and uncertainties
Citizen science, also known as community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, or volunteer monitoring, is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur (or nonprofessional) scientists. It is sometimes described as “public participation in scientific research”, participatory monitoring, and participatory action research whose outcomes are often advancements in scientific research by improving the scientific community’s capacity, as well as increasing the public’s understanding of science.
Tentative Schedule
13:00 – 13:15 – Introduction to the workshop
13:15 – 13:45 – Keynote Speaker (20 min talk / 10 min discussion)
13:45 – 15:00 – Presentations
15:00 – 15:30 – Discussions
About Water-ForCE
We are a scientific partnership collecting the needs of the public and private sectors of the core Copernicus Program. We would love to know your needs.
Official Water-ForCE website or the Groundstation.Space Water-ForCE news pages
