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CITRAM begins test phase

CITRAM begins test phase

Today’s virtual kick-off initiates the CITRAM – Citizen Science for Traffic Management research project’s testing phase. 

Hamm’s city administration employees are the first participants to test the CITRAM app. Today’s virtual kickoff informs the participants of the enviroCar driver fleet on the use of ODB (On-Board-Diagnose) adapters with the enviroCar and [ui] ECOMAT apps. Equipped with a car, an Android smart phone and an OBD adapter, the participants will anonymously track their driving along predefined routes for approximately 2 months.

The first fleet of cars will take to the streets on June 15, 2020. The cities of Krefeld (testing in Krefeld) and Chemnitz (testing in Chemnitz) will follow in the coming weeks. Testing should be completed by the end of August.

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Cos4Cloud @ EGU20

Cos4Cloud @ EGU20

Design and Development of Interoperable Cloud Sensor Services to Support Citizen Science Projects

Citizen Observatories are becoming an increasingly popular source of input data in many scientific domains. During the recent EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online, Simon Jirka (52°North) presented the ideas behind the European H2020 project Cos4Cloud (Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOS-Cloud). The project aims at providing re-usable services for setting up Citizen Observatories based on the European Open Science (EOS) Cloud. In particular, it will use interoperability standards such as the the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Sensor Observation Service (SOS), SensorThings API and Observations and Measurements (O&M).

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Cos4Cloud

Cos4Cloud

A European project to revolutionize the technology of citizen science

The European Union promotes Cos4Cloud, an ambitious project that will create cutting-edge technology services to improve citizen science platforms. Among other services, it will include integrating observations from different citizen science platforms into a portal, artificial intelligence tools that help citizens recognize species when they send an observation, and standardized data from different platforms. These technological services will be available in the new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), so that each new or existing project will be able to choose and install the ones it needs and improve its functionalities.more >

Forum Citizen Science 2019

“The Future of Citizen Research”

The Forum Citizen Science 2019 takes place from September 26 – 27, 2019 at the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster. It offers the Citizen Science communty a platform for discussion to exchange ideas and network. 52°North’s Dr. Ben Gräler presents the citizen science platform enviroCar.

Friday, September 27, 2019

11:45 – 13:15  Presentation of Academic Papers II (DE)

enviroCar – a Citizen Science Labor for Sustainable Mobility (enviroCar – ein Citizen Science Labor für nachhaltige Mobilität)
Albert Remke, Ben Gräler