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COSA – AlpErosion: Monitoring the degradation of Alpine soils with COSA, a Citizens’ Observatory Smartphone App

Alewell, Christine and Meusburger, Katrin and Kandl, Daniela and Fetai, Ilir and Roth, Volker and Rugolo, Valentino and Schuldt, Heiko and Vetter, Thomas. (2015) COSA – AlpErosion: Monitoring the degradation of Alpine soils with COSA, a Citizens’ Observatory Smartphone App. (36). pp. 19-22. Wädenswil .

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Abstract

While Alpine soils show increasing, yet unnoticed trends of degradation, their importance and value to society as a whole, but also to ecosystem and landscape stability is often overlooked. This project aims to make soil degradation of Alpine grasslands more visible in combining the citizen observatory approach with a Smartphone App for photo documentation by hikers, mountain bikers and skiers. Data evaluation will be used to extrapolate trends of soil degradation in space and time as well as being the starting point of more detailed ground truth and/or remote sensing investigations. In addition, this project could be a pioneer for a Smartphone App generally suitable for environmental monitoring (e.g. loss in biodiversity or expansion of neophytes).
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Mathematik und Informatik > Informatik > Databases and Information Systems (Schuldt)
UniBasel Contributors:Schuldt, Heiko and Alewell, Christine and Meusburger, Katrin and Kandl, Daniela and Fetai, Ilir and Rugolo, Valentino and Roth, Volker and Vetter, Thomas
Item Type:Other
Publisher:Bulletin der Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft der Schweiz
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Other publications
Last Modified:22 Mar 2018 11:56
Deposited On:22 Mar 2018 11:56

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