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Citizen Science for Climate Action

Name of the initiative: Grow Observatory

URL: https://growobservatory…

Organisation form:

Country: Ireland, UK, Portugal, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, Belgium

Domain: Citizen Science

Starting year: 2017

Keywords: agriculture, soil, data gathering, citizen science, forecasting

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The GROW Observatory is the first continental-scale Citizens’ Observatory to monitor a key parameter for science, continuously over an extended period, and at an unmatched spatial density. GROW has, for the first time, used crowdsourced ground observations from low-cost sensors to validate soil moisture information from satellites, including the new generation of high-resolution satellites, Sentinel-1. The Observatory is supporting a movement of citizens generating, sharing and using information on growing and the land.Thousands of people have come together to collect and make use of data, gaining a voice on local issues, improving soil, land use, climate change adaptation and our overall sustainability.  

24 GROW communities in 13 European countries create an unprecedented network of 6,502 ground-based soil sensors and a dataset of 516M rows of soil data. 

Contributed by: Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick, Ireland

Date added: 30 June 2020

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