EUROVOLC CITIZEN-science tool
FEATURES
Consequently , the basic concepts at the basis of the citizen science tool under development were :
• to be able to collect citizens ’ new observations of volcanic events from European continental and overseas volcanoes
• to feed it also with the data already collected by national citizen-science tools
• to display and map the collected data
• to allow some user-friendly easy operations through a GUI , such as selecting the types of observations and a specific time window and / or spatial area
• to grant the downloading of the displayed or selected data in csv format for later post-processing by the user .
The feeding from already-existing services required a legal consultation with the legal representatives of the partner institution providing such services , to exclude any potential issue on the visualization and downloading of data from other European tools . This led to discard , at least for present times , the data from the web questionnaire for the Azores volcanoes , as the data collected by that tool are not open .
Further , in order to be able to search and visualize observations from other European tools , the EUROVOLC citizen science tool populates and updates monthly its internal database , fetching the observations once a month from the other tools ’ differently-structured databases .
The developed webpage is now available at https :// eurovolc . bgs . ac . uk / ( Figure 2 ).
The tool integrates information from the European Catalogue of Volcanoes , another service provided by EUROVOLC project to the scientific community and to citizens , to show the location of volcanoes in the visualized maps ( Figure 3 ). n
About the Authors
The authors are a group of scientists from 5 different research institutions and volcano observatories in 4 different European countries . They have collaborated in EUROVOLC project on the task related to the use of citizen science in volcanology .
References
[ 1 ] M . Duncan , K . Mee , A . Hicks , S . Engwell , R . Robertson , M . Forbes , I . Ferdinand , C . Jordan and S . Loughlin ( 2017 ), Using the ' myVolcano ' mobile phone app for citizen science in St . Vincent and the Grenadines : a pilot study . British Geological Survey Open Report , OR / 17 / 045 .
[ 2 ] K . Mee and M . Duncan ( 2015 ), Increasing resilience to natural hazards through crowd-sourcing in St . Vincent and the Grenadines . Nottingham , UK , British Geological Survey , 50pp . ( OR / 15 / 032 )
[ 3 ] J . A . Stevenson , S . C . Loughlin et al ., Journal of Geophysical Research 117 ( 2012 ), doi : 10.1029 / 2011JB008904
[ 4 ] J . Stevenson , S . C . Loughlin , A . Font , G . W . Fuller , A . Macleod , I . W . Oliver , B . Jackson , C . J . Horwell , T . Thordarson and I . Dawson , Journal of Applied Volcanology 2 ( 3 ), 1 ( 2013 ). doi : 10.1186 / 2191-5040-2-3
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