Citizen Science

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Background research

What has been done before which is closely related to your project?  Answering this question can be done throughout your project, and it will likely happen multiple times, but it needs to be done to help build your project and avoid others' pitfalls.  Your work will be built on the work of others, so cite accordingly.

Start documenting your references, and short paragraphs which help put them in context of the work you're trying to do.  Otherwise this goes from building up the body of scientific knowledge to being plagarism.

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  • MaxCaplow   June 25, 2013, 1:45 p.m.

    Here are some more sources on using phones for weather data: There ot really papers... but I hope there good enough...

    http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/05/08/weathersignal-taps-android-sensors-to-create-crowdsourced-weather-reports-but-it-needs-lots-of-users/

    http://galaxy-note2.wonderhowto.com/how-to/get-ambient-weather-readings-instantly-using-your-samsung-galaxy-note-2s-built-sensors-0146896/

    and 

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNhLmN1bXVsb25pbWJ1cy5iYXJvbWV0ZXJuZXR3b3JrIl0.

  • MaxCaplow   June 20, 2013, 4:48 p.m.

    Here are some sources for altidue data with event rates for DECO:

    http://cds.cern.ch/record/557167/files/p41.pdf

    http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/solar/cosmic.html

    TBC

  • levisimons   June 20, 2013, 7:44 p.m.
    In Reply To:   MaxCaplow   June 20, 2013, 4:48 p.m.

    Max,

    Good finds.  I've added these papers to the DECO wiki  under the altitude tests listed here: http://www.globalsensorweb.org/wiki/index.php/DECO#Testing_the_DECO_application