Linda See
Interested in citizen science, environmental monitoring, land cover, sustainable development
Location Austria
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Linda See replied to David Axon
The web app is actually better for playing around with because you can see the threats of others. This is not possible on the mobile app, which is literally a device for going out into the field, taking a picture, selecting a threat and uploading it. So it's not the most user friendly (or intuitive) at the moment. The mobile app is currently being redesigned.
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Linda See replied to David Axon
Hi David, I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do but you can't currently download any of the threat data/photos from either the web app or the mobile app. If you downloaded the mobile app on your iPad and created an account, then there is a section on downloaded data in your profile but it just refers to boundaries of important bird and biodiversity...
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So a large area :-) The data for Germany are available here: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lucas/data/primary-data/2018 if it's useful.
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Thanks - this is the difficult part to get as many cities have good tree cadasters for the public trees but know little about the private ones. Here is an interesting article in the BBC that may or may not be relevant for you: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54311593
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@PaulineFairclough: yes the golf course drainage could well be affecting the allotment. Interesting how everything is connected.
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@AnettRichter: The LUCAS is freely available so it does allow you to look for change in land cover/land use over a three year period. So I guess my question is: how big an area are you talking about?
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@AnettRichter: You raise an interesting issue. There is a survey that takes place every 3 years called LUCAS (Land Use Cover Area frame Survey) in which professional surveys have to go to around 300K points across the EU and report on the land cover and land use. In this case they get as close as they can to the location or they ask the permission of farmers....
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Hi Norman, I would need to know what format your contour map is in but assuming it's digital, you can use Google Sketchup to do this, which is free. You could also try a free GIS package called QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/). There might be some information in this tutorial (particularly exporting to Google Earth for visualization afterwards):...
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Hi Pauline, you can also use this website: https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk to see if there is any information from the UK Environment Agency on this area. I doubt it but it's worth checking out if you know a postcode.
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Hi Pauline, have you tried to contact the UK Environment Agency? It sounds like storm Alex may dumped a lot of rainfall on an already saturated soil so you are experiencing quite strong surface flooding. We've certainly had a very grey/rainy summer (after an amazing spring). Monty Don on Gardener's World also remarked on this, saying the last two years have...
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Hi Janna, I find the seaweed idea really interesting. I live near the Cornish coast in the UK and have thought of picking up seaweed to fertilize my garden. I realize the issues you face are quite serious - I once visited the Baltic Sea and clearly remember that areas were out of bounds for swimming due to toxicity. Anyway, I'd be interested to follow your...
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Hi David, in a later section of the course we talk about an application called Natura Alert, which is specifically about threat monitoring in the context of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas. It uses the IUCN threat classification scheme: https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/threat-classification-scheme. Maybe something similar could be adapted for your...
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Hi, thanks for the great reference to ARK, which I'd not come across before. I just had a look and this is exactly the type of thing we are trying to do with some of our grass.
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Hi, you might find Citizen Science.Asia of interest to you. They have a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CitSciAsia/
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Hi Mitja, great ambition! Here is a nice example from Austria if this helps: https://www.citizen-science.at/en/
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Hi Elizabeth, interesting project! Can I ask if the trees you are collecting data on are privately owned trees or ones owned by the city?
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The network of BirdLife volunteers who use this app (in Spain right now and also to a certain extent in Indonesia) would have had the benefit of a number of training videos in Spanish as well as face-to-face sessions organized in Spain. It's pretty clear that someone just coming to the app needs more information than is currently provided. So we will take this...
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Linda See replied to Ian Malcolm
Actually to answer your question about data quality, this system has really been set up right now for Spain (with the idea that it could be rolled out in the future to other countries). So the national coordinator of BirdLife in Spain will validate all threats by looking at them and then validate them, seeing whether they make sense. If they don't make sense,...
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Linda See replied to Ian Malcolm
Hi, that's actually me testing the app - sorry, I'll remove that rather silly threat. Last time I checked, there were no volcanoes near me :-)
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Linda See replied to Teresa Holmes
Did you try https://natura-alert.net? It might now work on an older browser like Internet Explorer but it does work on Edge, Chrome and Firefox.
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Linda See replied to Marcela Ewert
I agree with your comment that climate change is a difficult one to monitor but it's on this standardized list of threats. I think you will find that most reporting by the volunteers will be on things that are very visible and easy to report.
The online application is a bit easier to navigate around:
You can log in with...
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Linda See replied to Marcela Ewert
Hi Marcela, thanks for you questions on Natura Alert. To try to answer some of these:
1. This app is actually designed for a network of volunteers who provide information to BirdLife rather than any citizen wanting to report threats. I think your comments show that an app for any citizen to participate would need to be designed differently.
2. You can record...
