Citizen monitoring of ambient dose rate: the SAFECAST project
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652052%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000014" target="_blank" >RIV/86652052:_____/23:N0000014 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article/199/8-9/775/7177427" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article/199/8-9/775/7177427</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncad079" target="_blank" >10.1093/rpd/ncad079</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Citizen monitoring of ambient dose rate: the SAFECAST project
Original language description
Citizen Science (CS) is research performed by citizens who are not professional scientists in general. SAFECAST was founded in Japan after the Fukushima accident 2011, motivated by distrust in the perceived biassed information by authorities about radiation situation. Measurements of ambient dose rate (ADR) performed by citizens were intended to verify and complement official data using bGeigieNano designed for purpose, recording ADR, GPS coordinates and date/time allowing projection on digital maps. The project expanded internationally, by mid-2022 containing ⁓180 million measurements. CS generates large amount of data as valuable source for science; it has educational value and serves communication between citizens and professionals. Problems consist in quality assurance (QA): citizens who are no trained metrologists are usually little familiar with notions of representativeness, measurement protocols and uncertainty that are the central QA topics. We discuss variability of response of instruments of the same kind under same ambient conditions and isotropy of response under field conditions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
ISSN
0144-8420
e-ISSN
1742-3406
Volume of the periodical
199
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8-9
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
775-780
UT code for WoS article
000995004700015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85160179776