Geoinformatics in Citizen Science

The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical technological and social aspects of geoinformation methods as applied to supporting citizen science. Specifically the book focuses on the technological aspects of the field and their application toward the recruitment of volunteers and the collection management and analysis of geotagged information to support volunteer involvement in scientific projects. Internationally renowned research groups share research in three areas: First the key methods of geoinformatics within citizen science initiatives to support scientists in discovering new knowledge in specific application domains or in performing relevant activities such as reliable geodata filtering management analysis synthesis sharing and visualization; second the critical aspects of citizen science initiatives that call for emerging or novel approaches of geoinformatics to acquire and handle geoinformation; and third novel geoinformatics research that could serve in support of citizen science.