Title :
Low-cost moored instrumentation for citizens´ education and participation in environmental stewardship
Author :
Bardaji, R. ; Piera, Julien
Author_Institution :
Phys. Oceanogr., Marine Sci. Inst. (ICMC), Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
One goal of the Citclops European project is to approach citizens and improve their understanding of aquatic environmental observations and monitoring for the enhancement of community decision-making and cooperative planning. As a potential solution to estimate water transparency related parameters, a low cost instrument is proposed, integrating quasi-digital optical sensors in the open-hardware Arduino platform.
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; education; environmental monitoring (geophysics); oceanographic equipment; optical variables measurement; planning; societies; Citclops European project; aquatic environmental monitoring; aquatic environmental observation; citizen education; citizen participation; community decision making; cooperative planning; environmental stewardship; low cost moored instrumentation; open hardware Arduino platform; water transparency estimation; water transparency related parameter; Geophysical measurements; Instruments; Mobile handsets; Optical sensors; Prototypes; Sensor systems; Buoy technology; Do it yourself; Low cost sensors; Oceanographic instrumentation and sensors;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bergen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0000-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608176
