Post on 20-Oct-2020
Citizens Observatories for Water:Data & ToolsDr. Suvodeep Mazumdar @ovus00 s.mazumdar@sheffield.ac.ukDr. Vitaveska LanfranchiNeil IresonProf. Fabio Ciravegna
Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Sheffield
The Water Problem
• Multiple issues: flooding, drought, pollution, …• Flooding is most recurrent natural disaster – over the
next 70 years• number of people affected each year rise to 0.5-0.8 million
• annual damages (increasing to €7.7-15 billion)• Conflicting interests on water-related decisions
• communities, environment, economic, political
• Traditional approaches to observing the water cycle • Density and resolution of collected data • Passive role for the community: citizens are consumers
WeSenseIt - Citizen Observatories of Water
• Creating an environment and methodology for creating a two way communication between decision makers and citizens• gather and share data and information (data capture)• provide interpretation of the evidence (analysis and sense making),
• identify, analyse and discuss solutions try to reach a consensual decision (decision making)
• provide multimodal services for citizens, communities and authorities
• respecting the different roles and information needs• UK / Netherlands / Italy
48 months, €5.4m funding,14 partners (2012-2016)Coordinator: University of Sheffield
Participatory Sensing Opportunistic Sensing
Remote and In-situ SensingPassive Sensing
Prediction/Visualisation
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Video water flow estimationWifi/Bluetooth detection
Software Tools
Passive / Opportunistic / ParticipatorySensing Tools
ModellingTools
VisualisationTools
Tools and Applications for Open use
• Opportunistic Sensing• Pattern Matching tools
• https://github.com/neilireson (multiregexp & aho-corasick libraries)
• Modelling• Design of dynamic monitoring networks & Data assimilation
• Open scripts in Matlab and Python to be obtained by request – new users will require training to use (please contact us)
• Visualisation• Social Media Collection/Visualisation using D3.js deployed on Ruby on Rails
• Tutorial http://linkedscience.org/tutorials/visual-analytics-with-linked-open-data-and-social-media/
• Library - to be released soon
Sensor Data for Open Use
• WeSenseIt use of open data• Environmental sensors
• http://www.shoothill.com/environment-agency-liveapi/• http://www.arpa.veneto.it/upload_teolo/dati_xml/Ultime48ore.xml
• Other• OpenStreetMap, OrdnanceSurvey, MIDAS (academic use)
• Standardisation• WaterML (OGC) – O&M / GML
• WSI data available:• https://goo.gl/VM2KYw• http://geossregistries.info/geosspub/resource_search_ns.jsp
Accessing Data from GEOSS
Citizen Observatories for Water: Data & Tools
Questions?
Dr. Suvodeep Mazumdar @ovus00 s.mazumdar@sheffield.ac.ukDr. Stuart Wrigley Neil IresonProf. Fabio Ciravegna
Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Sheffield