Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "citizen science"

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    • Next-Generation Field Guides 

      Farnsworth, Elizabeth Jean; Chu, Miyoko; Kress, W. John; Neill, Amanda K.; Best, Jason H.; Pickering, John; Stevenson, Robert D.; Courtney, Gregory W.; VanDyk, John K.; Ellison, Aaron M. (University of California Press, 2013)
      To conserve species, we must first identify them. Field researchers, land managers, educators, and citizen scientists need up-to-date and accessible tools to identify organisms, organize data, and share observations. ...

    • Observer Bias and the Detection of Low-Density Populations 

      Fitzpatrick, Matthew; Preisser, Evan; Ellison, Aaron; Elkinton, Joseph (Ecological Society of America, 2009)
      Monitoring programs increasingly are used to document the spread of invasive species in the hope of detecting and eradicating low-density infestations before they become established. However, interobserver variation in ...

    • Perceptual Annotation: Measuring Human Vision to Improve Computer Vision 

      Scheirer, Walter Jerome; Anthony, Samuel English; Nakayama, Ken; Cox, David Daniel (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
      For many problems in computer vision, human learners are considerably better than machines. Humans possess highly accurate internal recognition and learning mechanisms that are not yet understood, and they frequently have ...

    • Season Spotter: Using Citizen Science to Validate and Scale Plant Phenology from Near-Surface Remote Sensing 

      Kosmala, Margaret C; Crall, Alycia; Cheng, Rebecca; Hufkens, Koen; Henderson, Sandra; Richardson, Andrew (MDPI AG, 2016)
      Abstract: The impact of a rapidly changing climate on the biosphere is an urgent area of research for mitigation policy and management. Plant phenology is a sensitive indicator of climate change and regulates the seasonality ...