SubsidieMeestersBreaking the wall between professional science and citizen science by hyperautomation
HyperCitizen aims to enhance citizen science in biodiversity by developing a mobile app for bird monitoring that produces professional-quality data and fosters deeper public engagement in research.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Citizen science has become an integral part of biodiversity research with enormous potential for both improving biodiversity monitoring and involving citizens in scientific projects. However, the full integration of data generated with citizen science in professional research programs has not been fully reached.
Challenges in Integration
This is largely due to methodological challenges that compromise the value of the data that most citizen science projects have generated to date.
Innovative Solution
HyperCitizen will create an innovative solution that enables citizen science projects to generate data that are essentially equally informative as data generated by professional scientists. At the same time, HyperCitizen will provide additional value for the citizen scientists themselves, engaging them more profoundly in scientific research than has been previously possible.
Background
HyperCitizen derives from recent results generated by the ERC-Synergy project LIFEPLAN: A Planetary Inventory of Life - A New Synthesis Built on Big Data Combined with Novel Statistical Methods.
Development of Mobile Application
HyperCitizen will develop a mobile phone application for citizen science-based bird monitoring, enabling real-time interaction with users through hyperautomation.
Computational Methods
It will further develop computationally highly scalable methods for:
- Convolutional neural network-based bird vocalization classification
- Joint species distribution modeling used to produce prediction maps on past, present, and future distributions of birds and their vocalizations.
Proof of Concept
The proof of concept will be delivered by teaming up with bird enthusiast organizations and the Finnish national broadcasting company to launch and run a citizen science campaign on Finnish bird monitoring, culminating in the Great Migratory Bird Evening in spring 2024.
Engagement in Research
HyperCitizen aims to demonstrate how the public can be engaged in research in a way that breaks the current wall between citizen science and professional science.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 150.000 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 150.000 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-7-2023 |
| Einddatum | 31-12-2024 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2023 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTOpenvoerder
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