Citizen science and marine community monitoring by video-cabled observatories: The OBSEA Citizen Science project

Author

Del Rio, J. ; Aguzzi, Jacopo ; Hidalgo, A. ; Bghiel, I. ; Manuel, A. ; Sbragaglia, V. ; Sarda, F.

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Sarti Res. Group., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The Citizen Science refers to the public participation in scientific activities and research projects related with environment and its biodiversity are taking advantage of new technologies such us internet and mobile phones with recording capabilities for an easy data collection and sharing. In this paper, we presented a Citizen Science experience with the OBSEA costal-cabled video-observatory, deployed in western Mediterranean in 2009. A local biodiversity survey is going to be conducted by citizens as generic non-experienced users, high-school students, and amateur divers helping to identify and classify fishes appearing within different digital products such as time-lapse images and footages. Accordingly, we implemented a protocol for the web-based species identification supervised by scientists, in order to evaluate the different performances for each group.

Keywords

aquaculture; biological techniques; biology computing; oceanographic techniques; video equipment; OBSEA Citizen Science project; OBSEA coastal cabled video observatory; citizen science; local biodiversity survey; marine community monitoring; public participation; video cabled observatory; Animals; Biodiversity; Communities; Monitoring; Observatories; Portals; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology Symposium (UT), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5948-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2013.6519842

Filename

6519842