Chapter Citizen science based marine environmental monitoring. The MOANA60 Experience

• Main Author: Viola, Alberto (auth)
• Other Authors: Zanardi, Sara (auth), Cunico, Ilaria (auth), Pino, Nicola (auth), Diviacco, Paolo (auth), Iurcev, Massimiliano (auth), Carbajales, Rodrigo Jose (auth), busato, alessandro (auth), BURCA, MIHAI (auth), Potleca, Nikolas (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
• Series: Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
• Subjects: The environment; Sea water quality monitoring; Citizen science; Low-cost sensors; IoT; South Thyrrenian Sea
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Sea water quality monitoring is extremely demanding and expensive. This results in the sea being largely under-sampled. To solve this OGS developed innovative technologies to be used within a citizen science approach. The simultaneous installation of remote sensing devices on boats of opportunity allows to build a monitoring infrastructure able to acquire, process, validate and display in real-time georeferenced data on a web portal. This work reports on a survey done in collaboration with the Moana 60 Lab initiative in the South Thyrrenian Sea.