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Project

The Garden Monitor - integrating remote sensing and crowd sourcing technology.

Gardens cover significant parts of (peri-)urban and rural areas. Knowledge about garden management is key to understanding their environmental impact and to estimating their potential for ecosystem services support. Yet, garden management is ill-documented and not monitored. To support the development of environmental policies on domestic green space and to monitor its effects, the project aims to develop (1) a spatially explicit garden map and (2) a regional garden mapping and monitoring application by integrating remote sensing and crowd sourcing. This pre-study focuses on (1) stakeholder mapping to inventory user needs and (2) the development of a methodology.

Date:1 Dec 2015 →  29 May 2016
Keywords:domestic gardens, environmental monitoring, remote sensing, crowd sourcing, citizen science