CrowdHydrology: Crowdsourcing hydrologic data and engaging citizen scientists

GroundWater

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 151-156

  Lowry, Christopher S ^a   Fienen, Michael N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN WATER SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; CROWDSOURCING; DATA COLLECTION; DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENTS; HYDROLOGIC DATA; PERSONNEL COSTS; PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT; TEXT MESSAGES; WATERSHED SCALE;

TECHNOLOGY;

GROUNDWATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BASEFLOW; GAUGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84871924921     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00956.x     Document Type: Article

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