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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. 

1. General purpose integration platform  to allow users to interact simultaneously from different sources of data
2. A data quality platform that validates biodiversity observations by experts 
3. 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

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