Enabling Citizen Science with the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance ("RAPID") Facility
Abstract
We report the outcomes of a citizen science workshop hosted in 2017 at the Natural Hazard Reconnaissance Facility, which is based at the University of Washington. The facility, which is known as the "RAPID," is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported center that provides investigators with the equipment, software, and support services needed to collect, process, and analyze perishable data from natural hazard events. The principal goal of the citizen science workshop was to define a path to achieving citizen disaster reconnaissance science goals of the RAPID facility. As part of its software development activities, the RAPID is developing the mobile reconnaissance application "RApp," which will include a simpler, offshoot mobile application to support citizen science campaigns. The citizen science mobile application will help researchers to facilitate collaborative data collection, synthesis, and (limited) analysis with non-researchers (for example, emergency managers, community organizations), enabling citizens to contribute data and information about natural hazard events and the impact of these events on their community. The citizen science application will be made openly available and marketed to individual researchers and hazard-focused research organizations such as the NSF-supported Social Science Extreme Events Reconnaissance (SSEER) Association.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMNH34A..04W
- Keywords:
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- 4325 Megacities and urban environment;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 4335 Disaster management;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 4341 Early warning systems;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 4352 Interaction between science and disaster management authorities;
- NATURAL HAZARDS