The ForestWatchers: A Citizen Cyberscience Project for Deforestation Monitoring in the Tropics

Eduardo F. P. da Luz, Felipe R. S. Correa, D. L. González, F. Grey, F. Ramos
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Millions of hectares of humid tropical forest are lost each year. Here we introduce the ForestWatchers project, a citizen cyberscience initiative that proposes to involve citizens around the globe in monitoring deforestation. ForestWatchers combines volunteered thinking with participatory sensing. In the project’s volunteered thinking segment, volunteers with their own smartphones, tablets and notebooks, are asked to use a Web interface to review satellite images of forested regions, and confirm whether automatic assignments of forested and deforested regions are correct. In the participatory sensing segment, citizens are invited to contribute with all sorts of data on the status of forested areas, such as pictures, videos or sound records. As the first forest-monitoring program to directly involve lay citizens, the ForestWatchers project aims at providing volunteer-assisted deforestation assessment for countries, regions or communities that do not have the necessary infrastructure or manpower.
森林观察者:热带地区监测森林砍伐的公民网络科学项目
每年有数百万公顷的潮湿热带森林消失。在这里,我们介绍ForestWatchers项目,这是一个公民网络科学倡议,提议让全球公民参与监测森林砍伐。森林观察者将自愿思考与参与式感知结合起来。在该项目的志愿者思考环节,志愿者们被要求用自己的智能手机、平板电脑和笔记本电脑,使用一个网络界面来查看森林地区的卫星图像,并确认自动分配的森林和毁林地区是否正确。在参与式感知部分,邀请公民提供有关森林地区状况的各种数据,如图片、视频或录音。作为第一个直接让非专业公民参与的森林监测项目,“森林观察者”项目旨在为缺乏必要基础设施或人力的国家、地区或社区提供志愿协助的森林砍伐评估。
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