1. Challenge-based citizen science
Citizen science and trees
Issue: how to model spread (and impact) of tree disease
Why?: for better modelling of spread = risk-based monitoring & management interventions
Link to Defra report
Professional and/or citizen science
Problem: we don’t precisely know where our trees are
Link to Fera report
Tree ID algorithms
We know precisely where trees are – but not which species
We know roughly where species are
Link to CS report
Earth observation
Modelling improvements
A solution?
Proposed: A citizen science hunt for trees – targeted to improve tree id algorithms
Crowd-source ground truthing?
Challenge-based citizen science
Large-scale
We know precisely where species are in a few locations
We know precisely where woods are – and their composition
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