Digital innovation with miniSASS, a citizen science biomonitoring tool

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cg.contributor.affiliationGroundTruthen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of KwaZulu-Natalen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUnited Nations Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationNorth-West Universityen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeDigital Innovationen_US
cg.coverage.countrySouth Africaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ZAen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.subregionMooi Riveren_US
cg.coverage.subregionuMgeni Riveren_US
cg.coverage.subregionKarkloof Riveren_US
cg.creator.identifierChris Dickens: 0000-0002-4251-7767en_US
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH052345en_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Other/PDF/digital_innovation_with_minisass_a_citizen_science_biomonitoring_tool.pdfen_US
cg.placeColombo, Sri Lankaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPattinson, N. B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRussell, C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDickens, Chris W. S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKoen, R. C. J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKoen, F. J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGraham, P. M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-15T05:04:14Zen_US
dc.date.available2023-11-15T05:04:14Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/134498en_US
dc.titleDigital innovation with miniSASS, a citizen science biomonitoring toolen_US
dcterms.abstractThe mini stream assessment scoring system (miniSASS) was developed as a citizen science biomonitoring tool for assessing the water quality and health of stream and river systems. A miniSASS survey involves sampling the aquatic macroinvertebrate community in a stream or river reach and using the known sensitivities and tolerances of the taxa present to infer information about the water quality and health of the stream or river. The quality of the outcomes of a miniSASS survey is dependent on good sampling technique and accurate identification of aquatic macroinvertebrates by low-skilled citizen scientists. As such, there is potential for errors in sampling and identification which may impact the accuracy of results. In response, we aimed to 1) develop a smartphone application (miniSASS mobile app with built-in machine learning (ML) algorithm for the automatic, real-time identification of aquatic macroinvertebrates) to assist in miniSASS surveys, 2) modernise and upgrade the miniSASS website to handle new data submissions (including photographs) and improve the user interface (UI), and 3) develop an online miniSASS training course. This report presents the methodology and preliminary results pertaining to these objectives.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPattinson, N. B.; Russell, C.; Taylor, J.; Dickens, Chris W. S.; Koen, R. C. J.; Koen, F. J.; Graham, P. M. 2023. Digital innovation with miniSASS, a citizen science biomonitoring tool. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation. 11p.en_US
dcterms.extent11p.en_US
dcterms.issued2023-11-14en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherCGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovationen_US
dcterms.subjectdigital technologyen_US
dcterms.subjectcitizen scienceen_US
dcterms.subjectbiomonitoringen_US
dcterms.subjectriversen_US
dcterms.subjectwater qualityen_US
dcterms.subjectmacroinvertebratesen_US
dcterms.subjectmobile applicationsen_US
dcterms.subjectmachine learningen_US
dcterms.subjectalgorithmsen_US
dcterms.subjectdatabasesen_US
dcterms.subjecttrainingen_US
dcterms.subjectsustainable development goalsen_US
dcterms.typeReporten_US

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