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Title: | Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: opportunities and challenges |
Authors: | Thaine Herman Assumpção, Ioana Popescu and Andreja Jonoski (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), Dimitri P. Solomatine (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Water Resources Section, Delft University of Technology) |
Conference: | European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 23–28 April 2017 Vienna, Austria |
VIEW: | https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/hess-2017-456/hess-2017-456.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: opportunities and challenges |
Title: | Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web – Scent |
Authors: | Athanasia Tsertou (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Iulian Nichersu (Danube Delta National Institute) |
Journal: | Buletinul AGIR (AGIR Scientific Bulletin), issue 4/2017 |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1232293 |
DOWNLOAD: | Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens Into a People-Centric Observation Web – Scent |
Title: | Scent: Citizen Sourced Data in Support of Environmental Monitoring |
Authors: | Athanasia Tsertou, George Athanasiou, Andreas Kallioras (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Andreja Jonoski, Ioana Popescu, Thaine Herman Assumpcao (IHE-Delft) and Iulian Nichersu (Danube Delta National Institute) |
Journal: | 21st International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science
Bucharest, Romania |
VIEW: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7968621/ |
DOWNLOAD: | SCENT Citizen Sourced Data in Support of Environmental Monitoring |
Title: | Scent: Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Authors: | Harris Georgiou and Thanoskonstantakis (HRTA), Angelos Amditis and Athanasia Tsertou (ICCS), Benjamin Cohen (IBM), Andreja Jonoski and Ioana Popescu (IHE-Delft) and Iulian Nichersu and Eugenia Marin (DDNI), Iacopo Carreras and Andrea Cuoghi (UH), Linda Henriksson and Amy Hume (CARR), Silvia Brandalesi and Luca Simeone (XTEAM), Emil Todorov (SOR), Mary Miska and Dimitra Alexopoulou (ATTICA) |
Journal: | Safe Athens 2017 Athens, Greece 28-30 June 2017 |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1172703 |
DOWNLOAD: | Scent Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Title: | Citizen Observations Contributing to Flood Modelling: Opportunities and Challenges |
Authors: | Thaine Herman Assumpcao, Andreja Jonoski, Ioana Popescu and Dimitri Solomatine (IHE-Delft) |
Journal: | Hydrology and Earth System Science 28 February 2018 |
VIEW: | https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/22/1473/2018/ |
DOWNLOAD: | Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling opportunities and challenges |
Title: | Crowdsourcing Methods for Data Collection in Geophysics: State of the Art, Issues and Future Directions |
Authors: | Feifei Zheng, Ruoling Tao, Holger R Maier, Linda See, Dragan Savic, Tuqiao Zhang, Qiuwen Chen, Thaine H. Assumpcao, Pan Yang, Bardia Heidari, Jorg Rieckermann, Barbara Minsker, Weiwei Bi, Ximing Cai, Dimitri Solomatine, Ioana Popescu |
Journal: | Reviews of Geophysics 08 November 2018 |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2018RG000616 |
DOWNLOAD: | Crowdsoucing Methods for Data Collection in Geophysics State of the Art, Issues and Future Directions |
Title: | Expert Judgement Assessment and SCENT Ontological Analysis |
Authors: | Cristian Trifanov, Eugenia Marin, Florentina Sela, Iulian Nichersu, Marian Mierla (DDNI) |
Journal: | Danube Delta National Institute |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.7427/DDI.23.10 |
DOWNLOAD: | Expert Judgement Assessment and SCENT Ontological Analysis |
Title: | Modelling Support to Citizen Observatories for Strategic Danube Delta Planning: Sontea-Fortuna Case Study |
Authors: | A.B. Venturini, T.H. Assumpcao, I. Popescu, A. Jonoski, and D. Solomatine |
Journal: | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 21 January 2019 |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1523787 |
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Title: | SCENT Integrated Toolbox for Monitoring Flood Phenomena |
Authors: | Maria Krommyda, Spyros Bolierakis, Yannis Kopsinis, Chrysovalantis Tsiakos, Athanasia Tsertou, Angelos Amditis (ICCS) Andreja Jonoski, Ioana Popescu (IHE-DELFT), Daniele Miorandi (UH), Stefano Tamascelli (XTEAM) Benjamin Cohen (IBM) |
Journal: | FRIAR 2018 May 2018 |
VIEW: | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326883138_SCENT_INTEGRATED_TOOLBOX_FOR_MONITORING_FLOOD_PHENOMENA |
DOWNLOAD: | Scent Integrated Toolbox for Modelling Flood Phenomena |
Title: | Baby Steps Towards Few-Short Learning with Multiple Semantics |
Authors: | Eli Schwartz, Leonid Karlinsky, Rogerio Feris (IBM), Raja Giryes (Tel-Aviv University) and Alex M. Bronstein (Technion) |
Journal: | CVPR 2019 June 2019 |
VIEW: | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.01905.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | Baby steps towards few-short learning with multiple semantics |
Title: | LaSO: Label-Set Operations Netoworks for Multi-label Few Shot Learning |
Authors: | Amit Alfassy, Leonis Karlinsky, Amit Aides, Joseph Shtok, Sivan Harary, Rogerio Feris (IBM) Raja Giryes (Tel-Aviv University) Alex Bronstein (Technion) |
Journal: | CVPR 2019 February 2019 |
VIEW: | http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/papers/Alfassy_LaSO_Label-Set_Operations_Networks_for_Multi-Label_Few-Shot_Learning_CVPR_2019_paper.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | LaSO Label-Set Operations Networks for Multi-Label Few-Shot Learning |
Title: | RepMet: Representative-biased Metric Learning for Classification and One-shot Object Detection |
Authors: | Leonid Karlinsky, Joseph Shtok, Sivan Hararym Eli Schwartz, Amit Aides, Rogerio Feris (IBM) Raja Giryes (Tel-Aviv), Alex Bronstein (Technion) |
Journal: | CVPR 2019 November 2018 |
VIEW: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04728 |
DOWNLOAD: | RepMet Representative-Based Metric Learning for Classification and Few-Shot Object Detection |
Title: | SCENT – Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens in Monitoring Flood Phenomena |
Authors: | Maria Krommyda, Chrysovalantis Tsiakos, Athanasia Tsertou, Angelos Amditis (ICCS) Benjamin Cohen (IBM) Danielle Miorandi (UH) Stefano Tamascelli (XTEAM) |
Journal: | COWM 2018 |
VIEW: | https://zenodo.org/record/3521618#.XbgW1m52uUk |
DOWNLOAD: | SCENT Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into Monitoring Flood Phenomena |
Title: | Data-encoder: An Effective Sample Synthesis Method for Few-shot Object Recognition |
Authors: | Eli Schwartz, Leonid Karlinsky, Joseph Shtok, Sivan Harary, Mattias Marder, Abhishek Kumar, Rogerio Feris (IBM), Raja Giryes (Tel-Aviv University) and Alex Bronstein (Technion) |
Journal: | CVPR 2019 |
VIEW: | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04734.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | Data Encoder An Effective Sample Synthesis Method for Few-Shot Object Recognition |
Title: | Improved LC/LU Maps and Flood Models Through Crowdsourced Information |
Authors: | Tsiakos, C., Krommyda, M., Kopsinis, Y., Tsertou, A. (ICCS), Jonoski, A., Popescu, I., Assumpcao, T. (IHE-Delft) |
Journal: | CEST 2019 |
View: | http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3524902 |
DOWNLOAD: | Improved LC LU Maps and Flood Models Through Crowdsourced Information |
Title: | Innovative Sensors for Crowdsourced River Measurements Collection |
Authors: | Krommyda, M., Tsiakos, C., Rigos, A., Tsertou, A., Amditis, A. (ICCS), Georgiou, H. (HRTA), Jonoski, A., Popescu, I., Assumpcao, T. (IHE-Delft) |
Journal: | CEST 2019 |
View: | http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3524941 |
DOWNLOAD: | Innovative Sensors for Crowdsourced River Measurements Collection |
Title: | Scent – Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Authors: | Athanasia Tsertou, Angelos Amditis, Antreas Kallioras and Nikos Frangakis (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Benjamin Cohen (IBM Research Haifa), Andreja Jonoski, Ioana Popescu and Paolo Paron (IHE Institute for Water Education), Iulian Nichersu (Danube Delta National Institute), Daniele Miorandi (U-Hopper srl), Tony Hughes and Eddie Shaw (Carr Communications), Luca Simeone (XTeam Software Solutions), Marianna Markou (Hellenic Rescue Team Attica), Dan Hulea (Romanian Ornithological Society) and Maria Miska (Attica Region) |
Conference: | INSPIRE 2016 26-28 September 2016 Barcelona, Spain |
VIEW: | http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2016/schedule/submissions/345.html |
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Title: | Challenges of citizen science contributions to modelling hydrodynamics of floods |
Authors: | Thaine Herman Assumpção, Ioana Popescu and Andreja Jonoski (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), Dimitri P. Solomatine (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Water Resources Section, Delft University of Technology) |
Conference: | European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 23–28 April 2017 Vienna, Austria |
VIEW: | http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-17841.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | Challenges of Citizen Science Contributions to Modelling Hydrodynamics of Floods |
Title: | Expert Judgement Assessment and Scent Ontological Analysis |
Authors: | Iulian Nichersu, Iuliana Nichersu, Eugenia Marin, Florentina Sela, Marian Mierla, Cristian Trifanov (Danube Delta National Institute) |
Conference: | Deltas and Wetlands – 25th Symposium 18-21 May 2017 Tulcea, Romania |
VIEW: | http://ddni.ro/wps/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DELTAS-AND-WETLANDS_vol_4_2017.pdf (page 39) |
DOWNLOAD: | Deltas and Wetlands_Expert Judgement Assessment and Scent Ontological Analysis |
Title: | Scent: Citizen Sourced Data in Support of Environmental Monitoring |
Authors: | Athanasia Tsertou, George Athanasiou and Andreas Kallioras (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Andreja Jonoski, Ioana Popescu and Thaine Herman Assumpção (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education) and Iulian Nichersu (Danube Delta National Institute) |
Conference: | CSCS21-2017: The 21th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 29-31 May 2017 Bucharest, Romania |
VIEW: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7968621/ |
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Title: | Scent: Citizen Sourced Data in Support of Environmental Monitoring |
Authors: | Athanasia Tsertou, George Athanasiou and Andreas Kallioras (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Andreja Jonoski, Ioana Popescu and Thaine Herman Assumpção (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education) and Iulian Nichersu (Danube Delta National Institute) |
Conference: | CSCS21-2017: The 21th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 29-31 May 2017 Bucharest, Romania |
VIEW: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7968621/ |
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Title: | Scent: Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Authors: | Harris Georgiou and Thanos Konstantakis (Hellenic Rescue Team Attica), Angelos Amditis and Athanasia Tsertou (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Benjamin Cohen (IBM Research Haifa), Ioana Popescu and Andreja Jonoski (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), Iulian Nichersu and Eugenia Marin (Danube Delta National Institute), Iacopo Carreras and Andrea Cuoghi (U-Hopper srl), Linda Henriksson and Amy Hume (Carr Communications), Silvia Brandalesi and Luca Simeone (XTeam Software Solutions), Emil Todorov (Romanian Ornithological Society), Mary Miska and Dimitra Alexopoulou (Attica Region) |
Conference: | SafeAthens 2017 28-30 June 2017 Athens, Greece |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1172703 |
DOWNLOAD: | Scent Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens in a People-Centric Observation Web_Safe Athens 2017 |
Title: | Generation of geo-referenced Orthomosaics and Digital Elevation Models from aerial images obtained with UAVs – a silo case study as a trial for Scent project |
Authors: | Cristian Trifanov, Iulian Nichersu, Alexandru Păun, Marian Mierla (Danube Delta National Institute) |
Conference: | GEOPREVI Symposium 14-15 September 2017 Bucharest, Romania |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1209859 |
DOWNLOAD: | Scent Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens in a People-Centric Observation Web_Safe Athens 2017 |
Title: | Scent citizen observatories: considerations on the use of gamification in citizen science projects |
Authors: | Luca Simeone (XTeam Software Solutions and Aalborg University), Stefano Tamascelli (XTeam Software Solutions) and Daniele Miorandi (U-Hopper srl) |
Conference: | First Italian Citizen Science Conference 23-25 November 2017 Rome, Italy |
VIEW: | http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3521739 |
DOWNLOAD: | Scent Citizen Observatories Considerations on the Use of Gamification in Citizen Science Projects |
Title: | Defining Pathways for Citizen Observatories Using Flood Modelling: Sensitivity Analysis in Sontea-Fortuna Case Study |
Authors: | Thaine Herman Assumpcao, Andre B. Venturini, Ioana Popescu, Andreja Jononski and Dimitri Solomatine (IHE-Delft) |
Conference: | EGU General Assembly 01 April 2018 |
VIEW: | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-17550.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | Defining Pathways for Citizen Observatories Using Flood Modelling Sensitivity Analysis in Sontea-Fortuna Case Study |
Title: | Shape-based Performance Metrics for Hydrodynamic Models |
Authors: | Thaine Herman Assumpcao, Ioana Popescu, Andreja Jonoski, Dimitri Solomatine (IHE DELFT) |
Conference: | Advancing Earth and Space Science AGU Meeting 09-13 December 2018 |
VIEW: | https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/464787 |
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Title: | Best Practices in Serious Games: Gamification Strategies to Support Public Participation in Citizen Observatories |
Authors: | Luca Simeone, Silvia Brandalesi, Stefano Tamascelli (XTEAM), Chrysovalantis Tsiakos, Maria Krommyda, Athanasia Tsertou, Angelos Amditis (ICCS), Amy Hume (CARR) |
Conference: | COWM 2018 27-30 November 2018 |
VIEW: | http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3521637 |
DOWNLOAD: | Best Practices in Serious Games Gamification Strategies to Support Public Participation in Citizen Observatories |
Title: | Automated Water Level and Water Surface Velocity Calculation from Multimedia |
Authors: | Maria Krommyda, Athanasia Tsertou, Angelos Amditism (ICCS) Andreja Jonoski (IHE-Delft), Daniele Miorandi (UH), Benjamin Cohen (IBM) |
Conference: | EGU 2018 |
VIEW: | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-14733.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | Automated Water Level and Water Surface Velocity Calculation from Multimedia |
Title: | Towards Citizen-powered Cyberworlds for Environmental Monitoring |
Authors: | Maria Krommyda, Evangelos Sdongos, Athanasia Tsertou, Angelos Amditis (ICCS) Stefano Tamasceli, Geli Latsa (XTEAM) |
Journal: | EGU 2018 |
VIEW: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8590085 |
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Title: | Scent – Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People – Centric Observation Web |
Presented by: | Athanasia Tsertou (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems) |
Conference: | INSPIRE 2016 26-28 September 2016 Barcelona, Spain |
VIEW: | http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/pr_searchx.cfm?i=5&id_search=50053 |
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Title: | Citizens’ observatories to fill data gaps: What are the secrets to engaging citizens? Session 2 |
Co-presented by: | Linda Henriksson and Amy Hume (Carr Communications) |
Title: | From OGS SOS to SensorThings API The Scent journey to CO Data harmonization Session 9 |
Presented by: | Athanasia Tsertou (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems) |
Title: | Data Quality in Scent Session 15 |
Presented by: | Athanasia Tsertou (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems) |
Conference: | GEO European Projects Workshop 19-21 June 2017 Helsinki, Finland |
VIEW/DOWNLOAD: | https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/european-geo-workshop-2017 |
Title: | Scent: A Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Author: | Harris Georgiou (Hellenic Rescue Team Attica) |
Conference: | Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2017) 28-30 September 2017 Larissa, Greece |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1161148 |
Download: | SCENT_Project_Overview_PCI2017_slides_Harris_Georgiou_HRTA |
Title: | Scent – Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Presented by: | Maria Krommyda (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems) |
Conference: | GEO-XIV Plenary 25-26 October 2017 Washington, DC, USA |
VIEW: | https://swfound.org/media/206006/2-geoss-24-10-iccs-maria-krommyda.pdf |
DOWNLOAD: | GEO XIV Presentation |
Title: | Scent – Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web |
Presented by: | Maria Krommyda (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems) |
Conference: | GEO-XIV Plenary 25-26 October 2017 Washington, DC, USA |
VIEW: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1172713 |
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Title: | Scent Toolbox System Architecture |
Authors: | Anna Antonakopoulou, Theodoros Theodoropoulos, Athanasia Tsertou and Angelos Amditis (Institute of Communications and Computer Systems), Daniele Miorandi (U-Hopper srl), Benjamin Cohen (IBM Research Haifa), Riccardo Braga and Stefano Tamascelli (XTeam Software Solutions) and Andreja Jonoski (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education) |
Conference: | First Italian Citizen Science Conference 23-25 November 2017 Rome, Italy |
VIEW/DOWNLOAD: | http://www.citizensciencerome2017.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/POSTER-CON-ELENCO.pdf (no. 43) |
Title: | Scent citizen observatories: considerations on the use of gamification in citizen science projects |
Authors: | Luca Simeone (XTeam Software Solutions and Aalborg University), Stefano Tamascelli (XTeam Software Solutions) and Daniele Miorandi (U-Hopper srl) |
Conference: | First Italian Citizen Science Conference 23-25 November 2017 Rome, Italy |
VIEW/DOWNLOAD: | http://www.citizensciencerome2017.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/POSTER-CON-ELENCO.pdf (no. 47) |
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This section of the web site will expand to contain links to further reading materials that provide background information or greater detail to some of the concepts and challenges within SCENT.
“A conceptual approach to a citizens’ observatory – supporting community-based environmental governance”
by Hai-Ying Liu, Mike Kobernus, David Broday and Alena Bartonova (December, 2014)
Environmental Health section of BioMed Central
As the project partners met for the kick-off meeting in Athens during September 2016, we took the opportunity to ask some of those gathered to describe what the SCENT project means to them.
There are two versions below – a shorter version of approx 2′ 15″ duration and a longer edit of approx 5′.
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AtlantOS
Optimising and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing Systems
https://www.atlantos-h2020.eu
ECOPOTENTIAL
Improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations
http://www.ecopotential-project.eu/
GEO CRADLE
Coordinating and integRating state-of-the-art Earth Observation Activities in the regions of North Africa, Middle East, and Balkans and Developing Links with GEO related initiatives towards GEOSS
http://geocradle.eu/
GROUND TRUTH 2.0
Environmental knowledge discovery of human sensed data
http://www.gt20.eu/
LANDSENSE
A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring
http://www.landsense.eu/
GROW Observatory
A citizens’ observatory for family farmers, gardeners and growers
https://growobservatory.org/
WeObserve
An Ecosystem of Citizen Observatories for Environmental Monitoring
https://www.weobserve.eu/
ConnectinGEO
Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European Observations
http://www.connectingeo.net/
SWOS – Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service
Earth Observation for Wetlands
http://swos-service.eu/
ERA-PLANET
The European network for observing our changing planet
http://www.era-planet.eu/
CITI-SENSE
Development of Sensor-based Citizens’ Observatory Community for Improving Quality of Life in Cities
http://www.citi-sense.eu/
WeSenseIt
WeSenseIT: Citizen Observatory of Water
http://wesenseit.eu/
COBWEB
Citizen Observatory Web
https://cobwebproject.eu/
Citclops
Citizens’ Observatory for Coast and Ocean Optical Monitoring
http://www.citclops.eu/
OMNISCIENTIS
Odour Monitoring and Information System based on Citizen and Technology Innovative Sensors
www.omniscientis.eu
Scent is a European Union research project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme. The project runs between 2016 and 2019 and comprises 10 partner organisations across 6 countries.
Europe has the capacity and potential to lead a global citizen movement aimed at land use monitoring through a people-centred observation web. Scent will be this movement.
Scent will engage citizens in environmental monitoring and enable them to become the ‘eyes’ of the policy makers. In doing so citizens will support the monitoring of land-cover/use changes using their smartphones and tablets.
The project will demonstrate the huge potential of citizen observation and monitoring of the environment. A people-led online observation movement will capture land-cover use and changes through user-friendly tools and technologies, The Scent Toolbox. This will complement existing forms of monitoring such as satellite and remote sensing which are costly and less dynamic.
The Scent Toolbox; a crowd-sourcing platform, gaming applications, an authoring tool, an intelligence engine and numerical models, allows citizens, policy makers and other users to freely use Scent technologies to contribute to the aims of the project. The opinions of citizens, policy makers and communication experts will be taken into account during the design of the Scent Toolbox to ensure it is practical and user-friendly.
The Scent toolbox will be tested in two large scale pilots; the urban case of the Kifisos river in Attica, Greece and the rural case of the Danube Delta in Romania. The impact of the toolbox in the assessment of flood risks and flooding patterns will be evaluated.
The consortium covers the complete stakeholder chain: industries in machine learning, SMEs in crowd-sourcing, gaming and awareness-raising, leading research institutes with expertise in hydrodynamic modelling, data harmonisation and authoring tools and environmental monitoring, NGOs at the pilot sites and policy makers/public bodies.
Project Objectives
Methodology
The citizen-centric and participatory Scent methodology is divided into three phases:
Scent and the Open Research Data Pilot
Scent participates in the Pilot on Open Research Data launched by the European Commission along with the Horizon 2020 programme.
The Open Research Data Pilot aims to improve and maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by Horizon 2020 projects. It takes into account the need to balance openness and protection of scientific information, commercialisation and Intellectual Property Rights, privacy concerns, security as well as data management and preservation questions. While open access to research data thereby becomes applicable by default in Horizon 2020, the Commission also recognises that there are good reasons to keep some or even all research data generated in a project closed. The Commission therefore provides robust opt-out possibilities at any stage.
The Scent consortium supports open science and the large potential benefits to the European innovation and economy stemming from allowing reusing data at a larger scale. The majority of data produced in the project may therefore be published with open access.
The Scent Concept
Scent aims to demonstrate the huge potential of an active citizen observatory that will complement existing infrastructure through the Scent toolbox. It will lead to a significant pool of observations on changes in land cover and related environmental phenomena. Data will be fed via web services into existing repositories, such as the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) portal. Scent will provide policy-makers with a near real-time view of land-use changes while directly involving citizens in the decision-making process.
The Scent concept is built around three pillars:
Pillar I: Increased involvement of citizens in the process of land cover and land use monitoring through a set of participatory solutions
Pillar II: Better use of available data, repositories and monitoring systems through innovative tools and algorithms
Pillar III: Development of a co-design strategy, involving both citizens and public authorities with the aim of creating a sustainable citizen observatory
Impact
The impact of the project will be felt in many ways, especially in the environmental, societal, technical and industrial field.
Environmental
Citizens often feel that their efforts won’t have much impact on environmental policies and climate change. Scent will show that citizens in fact can have a real impact in environmental monitoring and identification of flood risks.
Major environmental agencies and decision-makers have agreed to promote the project outcomes, which will guarantee EU-wide environmental impact.
Societal
Scent will foster innovation and create jobs in SMEs, which will help fight unemployment in Europe.
Scent will also improve the accuracy of existing flood risk maps by more than 15% and thus make areas close to floodplains less vulnerable to disasters.
Scent promotes an open method of coordinating environmental policies. It will include regional environmental groups, public-private partnerships and citizen communities in land-use monitoring, which will encourage innovative governance schemes.
Technical
Scent will bring about new technological developments and products through the SCENT toolbox, and citizens’ contributions to environmental data will be fed directly into the Scent intelligence engine. These will be key in generating precise and up-to-date land-use maps and flood risk maps for decision-makers.
Scent will also extend the GEOSS and Copernicus repositories through frequent updates of local monitoring of land-use changes using the Scent Toolbox.
Industrial
Scent will introduce low-cost state-of-the-art tools that will encourage further innovation and boost the development of new people-centric apps, products and services.
The Scent observatory will promote Europe in the global environmental monitoring market. Citizen engagement will foster the creation of new SMEs and boost innovation in current European SMEs. Scent will reveal an untapped potential for the gaming industry and the crowd-sourcing and social media industries to enter the environmental field.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 688930.