Safecast – Citizen Science for radiation monitoring

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Safecast – Citizen Science for radiation monitoring

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Safecast – Citizen Science for radiation monitoring

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/VJ01010116" target="_blank" >VJ01010116: Centrum pro podporu obyvatelstva pro případ skutečného nebo domnělého vzniku mimořádných jaderných a radiačních událostí</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

RAP Conference Proceedings: International Conference on Radiation Applications

ISBN

978-86-81652-01-5

ISSN

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e-ISSN

2737-9973

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

32-38

Název nakladatele

Sievert Association

Místo vydání

Niš

Místo konání akce

virtual online conference

Datum konání akce

6. 9. 2021

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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