KnoWare: A system for citizen-based environmental monitoring

Informing Science

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-139

  Storer, Jeremy ^a   Chao, Joseph ^a   Torelli, Andrew ^a   Ostrowski, Alexis ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell phone spectrometer; Citizen science; Visualization; Water contaminant analysis; Web and mobile development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007380730     PISSN: 15479684     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/3500     Document Type: Article

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