Marijke Welvaert|Peter Caley
Citizen surveillance for environmental monitoring: combining the efforts of citizen science and crowdsourcing in a quantitative data framework
Health Sciences and Nutrition|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation|Health Sciences and Nutrition|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
citizen science crowdsourcing emerging methods collect data surveillance andor monitoring activities could gathered overarching term citizen surveillance discipline however still struggles widely accepted scientific community mainly activities embedded quantitative framework results ongoing discussion analyze make useful inference data considering data collection process illustrate citizen surveillance classified according nature underlying observation process measured two dimensionsthe degree observer reporting intention control observer detection effort classifying observation process dimensions distinguish crowdsourcing unstructured citizen science structured citizen science classification helps determine data processing statistical treatment data making inference using framework apparent published studies overwhelmingly associated structured citizen science well developed statistical methods resulting data contrast methods making useful inference purely crowdsourced data remain development challenges accounting unknown observation process considerable quantitative framework citizen surveillance calls integration citizen science crowdsourcing provides way forward solve statistical challenges inherent citizensourced data