1. involving citizen scientists in radio meteor research
BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR RUIMTE-AERONOMIE INSTITUT D’AERONOMIE SPATIALE DE BELGIQUE BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE AERONOMY BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR RUIMTE-AERONOMIE INSTITUT D’AERONOMIE SPATIALE DE BELGIQUE BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE AERONOMY BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR RUIMTE-AERONOMIE INSTITUT D’AERONOMIE SPAT-
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
Institut royal d’Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB)
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie (BIRA)
The Radio Meteor Zoo -
involving citizen scientists
in radio meteor research
BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR RUIMTE-AERONOMIE INSTITUT D’AERONOMIE SPATIALE DE BELGIQUE BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE AERONOMY BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR RUIMTE-AERONOMIE INSTITUT D’AERONOMIE SPATIALE DE BELGIQUE BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE AERONOMY BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR RUIMTE-AERONOMIE INSTITUT D’AERONOMIE SPAT-

2. Observing meteors using radio techniques
“who knows the principle of radio meteor observation?”
advantages of radio detection:
Day and night (daylight showers)
Independent of the weather
Observing a lower mass range than visually

3. BRAMS network
~30 stations all over Belgium
~8000 spectrograms per day

4. Automatic detection algorithms
underdense meteors: we have two reliable automatic detection methods
difficult to classify more complex meteor shapes automatically

5. Automatic detection algorithms
underdense meteors: we have two reliable automatic detection methods
difficult to classify more complex meteor shapes automatically

6.
- live classification of one spectrogram
- each spectrogram is sent to 10 different volunteers

7. Results
More than 5000 registered volunteers classified meteors in almost spectrograms
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More than volunteers in total
Half of them at the launch, afterwards a linear growth
Aug Jan April August

8. Results
At the day of the launch on 12 August 2016, more than spectrograms were processed
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Perseids 2016 action
At the first day after official launch, almost spectrograms were processed.

9. Results
Volunteers classified spectrograms coming from 5 receiving stations for the Geminids 2017 action
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Geminids 2017 action

10. Results
For the Lyrids 2017 action, only one station has been processed
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Lyrids 2017 action

11. Results
For the Perseids 2017, more than spectrograms were processed in two days
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5000
Perseids 2017
action

12. Results
sporadic background subtraction

13. Future plans
Data quality: automatic removal of mistakes/errors/...

14. Future plans Data quality: automatic removal of mistakes/errors/...
Observability function
Use RMZ as the ground truth for the automatic detection algorithms
Observability function (to take into account the factors (geometry, gains, ...) that influence the sensitivity of the setup)

16. Call for action
Thanks to the Radio Meteor Zoo, BRAMS can for the first time analyze several showers per year
There are two laptops in the poster room where you can try the Radio Meteor Zoo yourself

17. Special thanks to: Acknowledgements The Zooniverse team,
All citizen scientists, and
Last but not least: the BRAMS station hosts

18. Thank you for your attention! https://www.radiometeorzoo.org
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