Safecast – Citizen Science for radiation monitoring

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652052%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000036" target="_blank" >RIV/86652052:_____/21:N0000036 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.rap-proceedings.org/papers/RapProc.2021.07.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.rap-proceedings.org/papers/RapProc.2021.07.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37392/RAPPROC.2021.07" target="_blank" >10.37392/RAPPROC.2021.07</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Safecast – Citizen Science for radiation monitoring
Original language description
Citizen Science has raised much interest for the last decades. In many scientific disciplines, citizens contribute to acquisition of field data mostly out of scientific interest. Institutional science used to look sceptically upon laypeople, but the attitude has largely changed as the benefits of Citizen Science for both active citizens and scientific institutions became apparent. One very successful project is SAFECAST, devoted to monitoring ambient ionizing radiation. The paper introduces the project and its measurement tool. Benefits and problems are discussed, the latter consisting primarily of uncertainty introduced by deviations from standard measurement protocol, in turn contributing to problems of interpretability. Altogether, measuring ambient dose rate is easy, but interpretation of results is not trivial and prone to spurious conclusions. One should have in mind that especially in case of real emergency (like Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents) the measurements of ambient dose-rate level only are not sufficient for proper decision-making on protective measures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/VJ01010116" target="_blank" >VJ01010116: Center for the support of the population in case of actual or suspected occurrence of extraordinary nuclear and radiation events</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
RAP Conference Proceedings: International Conference on Radiation Applications
ISBN
978-86-81652-01-5
ISSN
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e-ISSN
2737-9973
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
32-38
Publisher name
Sievert Association
Place of publication
Niš
Event location
virtual online conference
Event date
Sep 6, 2021
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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