CEDAR email: Joint GEM-CEDAR Session - Crowd to Cloud: Exploiting Crowd-Sourced Data for Geospace Science

[Stephen Kaeppler]

Dear Colleagues-

We encourage your participation at the GEM-CEDAR meeting in the Cloud to
Crowd
session. This session will be held on Tuesday from 13:30-15:30 in Sweeney
D.  The purpose of this session is discuss non-traditional sources of data
that can leveraged for geospace investigations.  We are still soliciting
short presentations that will help to bring out vigorous discussion of
these data sources and analysis techniques.


Description:
A variety of open-source crowd-sourced data exist that may provide
potentially useful geophysical information with higher temporal and spatial
coverage than traditional observations, yet these sources remain relatively
uninvestigated. Crowd-sourced data are defined loosely as any source of
data
that could be made available to our community from the ³crowd² in the
virtual
³cloud², for example, feeds from social media, amateur radio spotting
networks,
citizen scientist supported sensors, mobile telephone apps, or repurposed
satellite housekeeping data, to name a few possibilities. TEC derived from
GPS
satellites and the AMPERE specification of field aligned currents from
engineering grade magnetometers are two quintessential examples of
leveraging a
non-traditional data source to generate scientific quality data and
breakthrough scientific discovery. Recently, the Aurorasaurus citizen
science
project has used crowd-sourcing to collect scientifically useful
observations
of aurora, over global scales and in real-time, for the purposes of
improved
understanding and modeling.
The aim of this session is to discuss various open sources of data, and
which scientific questions these could address. Since these data may be
non-traditional, this session is also designed to investigate techniques
that
can be used to analyze these data to produce physically relevant
quantities.
This topic is in alignment with the 2016 NSF Agency Priority Goal (APG) on
Public Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Research
(PPSR). 

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday afternoon!


Conveners:
 
Ethan Miller: Ethan.Miller at jhuapl.edu
Liz MacDonald: elizabeth.a.macdonald at nasa.gov
Nathaniel Frissell: frissell at vt.edu
Steve Kaeppler: stephen.kaeppler at sri.com


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Stephen R. Kaeppler, Ph.D.
Research Engineer
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave G273
Menlo Park, CA 94025
stephen.kaeppler at sri.com
Office: 650-859-2540
Cell: 262-707-0932
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