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Cos4Cloud addresses one of the biggest challenges of citizen science: the quantity and quality of data, as well as maintaining the citizen observatories used to collect this data.
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Key purpose
One of the biggest challenges of citizen science is the quality of data, as well as maintaining the citizen observatories used to collect this data. Cos4Cloud is addressing these challenges by developing thirteen technological services to improve citizen science platforms, also known as citizen observatories, to help them boost the quantity and the quality of observations and, finally, to help ensure their long-term viability.
Core Project Results
This project has produced 3 pilots/demonstrators, i.e.
- General purpose integration platform to allow users to interact simultaneously from different sources of data
- A data quality platform that validates biodiversity observations by experts
- A platform for interactive pre-processing camera trap images that a) automatically filter most if not all of the unwanted pictures and b) propose the species name.
You can find more info and access these results and more either at the project website or from the Cordis Results page
Contact Details
For any further information as well as in collaborating for using or exploiting project results, please contact the Project Coordinator below:
Jaume Piera, Coordinator
Tenured Scientist at Marine Science Institute (ICM) CSIC and associate researcher at CREAF.
coordination@cos4cloud-eosc.eu
Tel. +34 93 230 95 00
Barcelona, Spain
This Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 863463
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