YouTube as a crowd-generated water level archive

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 568, Issue , 2016, Pages 189-195

  Michelsen, N ^a   Dirks, H ^b   Schulz, S ^c   Kempe, S ^a   Al Saud, M ^d   Schuth C ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Dornier Consulting   (Saudi Arabia)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d Ministry of Environment Water and Agriculture   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Dahl Hith; Participatory; Saudi Arabia; Social media mining

Indexed keywords

CAVES; CROWDSOURCING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DAHL HITH; PARTICIPATORY; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIAL MEDIA MININGS;

EFFLUENTS;

GROUND WATER; RAIN;

CAVE; DATA MINING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIDEOGRAPHY; WATER LEVEL;

ARTICLE; DATA MINING; FLOODING; LAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84973343743     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.211     Document Type: Article

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