We are developing a new version of the Barrier Tracker app
The AMBER citizen science platform is currently under maintenance while we prepare the release of the updated application. The new version of the AMBER Barrier Tracker will be available very soon on the Play Store for Android and on the App Store for iOS.
Why citizen science?
Citizen science has become a popular tool for research projects in many scientific fields. Citizen science relies on crowdsourcing and provides some great opportunities to strengthen research projects. The most important of these opportunities include the acquisation of more data, being able to undertake public engagement with science and increased cost effectiveness compared to monitoring by professionals.Citizen science & AMBER
Citizen science is an important component of the AMBER project. One of the major outputs of the project is compiling a pan-European atlas of barriers. This is done by combining existing databases supplemented with new data gathered by citizens. Furthermore the AMBER citizen science program is meant to engage with the public on the topic of barriers and their impacts.
How does it work?
The LET IT FLOW citizen science program includes a smartphone application and citizen science webportal.
With the smartphone application, called “Barrier tracker”, participants can record new barriers into a database. Using a smartphone application in the citizen science program allows for the gathering of more data and greater spatial coverage of records than would have been possible using conventional surveys. Participants can use the smartphone application when encountering a barrier and contribute data to the general database. Typical data gathered includes a photo of the barrier, the location of the barrier and the height of the barrier.