Enhancing Marine Weather Awareness using Crowd-Sourced Observations from Mobile Devices

OneNOAA Science Seminar Series

Sponsors: NOAA Central Library and the NOAA Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) as part of the NOAA Innovators Series.

POC: Tiffany House, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Commercialization Specialist,  (tiffany.house@noaa.gov)

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Speakers: Jerry Bieszczad and Marc Shapiro, Creare

Abstract: Creare has developed an Android/iOS smartphone app (WeatherCitizen) for collecting and distributing crowd-sourced environmental observations in a marine environment. In collaboration with Stony Brook University, we recently performed a field trial of WeatherCitizen on Long Island Sound collecting observations from 10+ geospatially distributed mobile devices and disseminating data-driven insights in real-time. This presentation will provide an overview of the development and deployment of WeatherCitizen, an overview of the Long Island Sound field trial, and the roadmap of WeatherCitizen into the future.

About the Speakers: Jerry Bieszczad is the Principal Investigator of this NOAA SBIR Phase II effort. At Creare, Dr. Bieszczad leads a wide range of projects investigating the use of mobile devices as crowd-sourced observational platforms; serverless cloud computing for earth science data analytics; and scientific and geospatial software design and development.

Marc Shapiro is the lead software architect for this NOAA SBIR Phase II effort. At Creare, Mr. Shapiro is the lead software developer on multiple projects aimed at providing mobile-based tools for data collection, aggregation and distribution. These efforts include a flexible, cross-platform mobile framework for administering hearing assessments and training and an Android based platform for crowd sourcing local environmental conditions based on mobile device sensors.

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(Jerry Bieszczad and Marc Shapiro, Creare)