Species Mapping Using Citizen Science Approach Through IBIN Portal: Use Case in Foothills of Himalaya
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Species Mapping Using Citizen Science Approach Through IBIN Portal: Use Case in Foothills of Himalaya Priyanka Singh1,2 • Sameer Saran1 • Dheeraj Kumar2 • Hitendra Padalia1 • Ashutosh Srivastava1 A. Senthil Kumar1
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Received: 4 June 2018 / Accepted: 1 August 2018 Ó Indian Society of Remote Sensing 2018
Abstract In this era of rapid global change, biodiversity monitoring and improving species repository to meet requirements toward conservation is costly affairs and needs a practical solution to identify and locate species with habitats. The integrated approach of citizen science and information technologies has proven to be effective solution for geographical and taxonomical data collection with public engagement, covering local to national scale. As a first step, a mobile app is designed and developed for the IBIN (Indian Bioresource Information Network), a digitized collection of the biological resources of India that serves as a common platform to access spatial and non-spatial information on biorecources can host their data through this single and intuitive platform with full privileges and authenticity. IBIN mobile app can be seen as an efficient and rapid solution to record data on species, utilizing GPS and camera features of mobile devices. Present paper deals with the citizen science approaches, its contribution in biodiversity field, outlines the design and development of IBIN mobile app and its first case study carried out at foothills of Himalaya. Keywords Citizen science Crowdsourcing Biodiversity Himalaya Information technology
Introduction In recent decades, catastrophic mass extinction of bio resources leads an unmissable challenge to environment protection, natural resource management and conservation science (McKinley et al. 2017). To tackle such immense challenges, citizen science approach to implementing social and information technology solutions will act as a powerful tool. As per the analysis report published by World Wildlife Fund (WWF)—globally, scientists have identified that more than 1.4 billion species exist on earth, unfortunately, now they started to disappear at the 1000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate per
& Priyanka Singh [email protected] 1
Geoinformatics Department, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organisation, #4, Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248001, India
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Mining Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, India
year because of overhunting, fishing, by catching, pollution, destruction of habitat and wastage of natural products (WWF-Global 2017). Furthermore, a substantial amount of species are confronting the threat of extinction and there is not an accurate estimation of how many of them have been discovered and how many of them are still awaited to be discovered. As our planet is full of unseen species and before identification, they are getting extinct each year, due to such a huge loss of bioresources, it is difficult for the profess
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