SCENT

Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web - The project designed, developed and implemented a people-centric observation web, formulated on the basis of using low-cost, portable sensors and innovative applications. The SCENT toolbox offers various capabilities involving crowdsourcing and serious gaming mechanisms towards enabling, incentivising and increasing the involvement of citizens as individuals and/or citizen groups/associations in the process of environmental monitoring. By using their smartphones and portable sensors, citizens can take images of land cover / land use while walking around in their city or the countryside, report events that may affect floods (e.g. river obstacles) and measure water level, flow velocity and soil moisture, without complex or bulky equipment. They are doing this in a playful manner, through a game of catching animated animals in their surroundings and collecting points.

Thematic Areas: 

• Natural Resource Management

Target Audience: 

• Citizens
• Academy
• Policy makers
• Land managers
• All Others

Application Area: 

• Analysis

Spatially specific: 

• Yes

Input data: 

• Qualitative
• Quantitative

Output data: 

• Aggregated data

Time requirement:

• Medium

National Technical University of Athens