Collaborating With Communities: Citizen Science Flood Monitoring in Urban Informal Settlements

The urban features of informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia

This data article contains the urban features of three informal settlements in Jakarta: A. Kampung Bandan; B. Kampung Luar Batang; And C. Kampung Muara Baru. The data describes the urban features of physical structures, infrastructures, and public services. These data include maps showing locations of these settlements, photography of urban status, and examples of urban fabric. The data are obt...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Citizen Participation in Informal Settlements; Potentials & Obstacles - The Case of Iran, Shiraz, Saadi Community

In recent years, “Bottom-up Planning Approach” has been widely accepted and expanded from planning theorists. Citizen participation becomes more important in decision-making in informal settlements. Many of previous projects and strategies due to ignorance of citizen participation, have been failed facing with informal settlements and in some cases lead physical expansion of these neighbourhood...

Citizen Sensing for Improved Urban Environmental Monitoring

Highly dynamic urban environmental phenomena call for detailed and timely environmental information to support decision making. To derive this information, environmental data needs to be collected. Often, these data are produced by official organizations and are too sparse to meet the information demands from public and organizations. There is a need for flexible and affordable alternatives to ...

Smartphone-powered citizen science for bioacoustic monitoring

An initial classifier considers the main frequency component of the call, centered around 13.5 kHz and spanning mainly between 11 and 17 kHz. The ratio between this and a range where little noise is present (8–9 kHz) is a measure of the acoustic energy of the cicada call, as can be defined as: • Only cicada native to the UK • Only present in the New Forest • High pitched call at ~ 13.5 kHz • Di...