I put this dashboard together for Earth Day as part of our Great Reef Census project. It shows a live feed of submissions from 22 April 2021 (wherever you are in the world ... so 48hrs in total). We've had a massive influx of contributions, nearly doubling our total minutes contributed for April in just under 36hrs.
Link above for the Earth Day dashboard. For live stats on the entire project (or to contribute!) see https://greatreefcensus.org/analysis. And for more info, including scope of the project, research outcomes, and partners please check out the homepage.
Thanks for the feedback. This is definitely the thing we have the most difficulty getting right (there's only four of us, bit of an echo chamber sometimes). Just to confirm are you talking about the info on the main project homepage or the linked dashboard?
For anyone else interested, the project is a 'shared-economy' style attempt to collect broad scale 'reconnaissance' data on remote / knowledge-lite areas of the Great Barrier Reef (currently only 5% of the reef is regularly surveyed). Ultimate goal is to improve models used for targeted management / research / conservation efforts.
If you were on the Great Barrier Reef between Oct-Dec last year you could contribute by submitting photos of the reef (we also ran a large number of expeditions to remote locations, manned by volunteers and researchers). Stats are on the site, but we ended up collecting over 13,000 from over 600 sites (the reef is over 2,300km long).
Today you can contribute by helping us to analyse these images. Jump on the site and we'll teach you how to do that (basically paint by numbers to categorise what you see) and then serve you up as many random images as you can handle.
At the moment the data is being used to measure coral cover and feed into research modelling. But there's a lot of room to move. E.g. we're also looking to develop vision models for reef-scape imagery on the GBR using polygon data from the analyses.
Also worth mentioning that all of the collected data, including imagery, metadata, analyses, and any vision models produced, will be open sourced (or otherwise released under permissive licenses) as soon as possible.
Yeah, I'd add this to the website (or maybe a short video of the analysis process). I went there, but there was zero description of what it meant to analyze an image. It just tried to drop me in, then prompted for an email address. I wasn't ready to give my email to a random website (yes I have throwaway emails) without any idea of what it was going to ask me to do.
Thanks for the extra info. Great to hear feedback. Yes, we're currently asking for an email address up front .. tho there's no reason why we couldn't do this after the analysis tutorial (it comes next) .. or even once you've completed your first image analysis. This is the point we give you access to your personal dashboard / map of images you've analysed.
This is the project's first year and the tech / dev side is a one-person show. Which is to say we're extremely cognisant of rough edges, but also super keen for meaningful feedback. Most of which we should be able to implement without fuss :)
Do people actually celebrate earth day? I figured everyone knew it was a government propaganda move to make people more accepting of bureaucrats, taxation, and red tape.
I'll bite :) No people don't celebrate it, but many recognise it as a meaningful opportunity to engage with conservation efforts. No bureaucrats, taxation or red tape to see here.
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[ 6.1 ms ] story [ 43.7 ms ] threadI put this dashboard together for Earth Day as part of our Great Reef Census project. It shows a live feed of submissions from 22 April 2021 (wherever you are in the world ... so 48hrs in total). We've had a massive influx of contributions, nearly doubling our total minutes contributed for April in just under 36hrs.
Link above for the Earth Day dashboard. For live stats on the entire project (or to contribute!) see https://greatreefcensus.org/analysis. And for more info, including scope of the project, research outcomes, and partners please check out the homepage.
Thanks!
For anyone else interested, the project is a 'shared-economy' style attempt to collect broad scale 'reconnaissance' data on remote / knowledge-lite areas of the Great Barrier Reef (currently only 5% of the reef is regularly surveyed). Ultimate goal is to improve models used for targeted management / research / conservation efforts.
If you were on the Great Barrier Reef between Oct-Dec last year you could contribute by submitting photos of the reef (we also ran a large number of expeditions to remote locations, manned by volunteers and researchers). Stats are on the site, but we ended up collecting over 13,000 from over 600 sites (the reef is over 2,300km long).
Today you can contribute by helping us to analyse these images. Jump on the site and we'll teach you how to do that (basically paint by numbers to categorise what you see) and then serve you up as many random images as you can handle.
At the moment the data is being used to measure coral cover and feed into research modelling. But there's a lot of room to move. E.g. we're also looking to develop vision models for reef-scape imagery on the GBR using polygon data from the analyses.
Also worth mentioning that all of the collected data, including imagery, metadata, analyses, and any vision models produced, will be open sourced (or otherwise released under permissive licenses) as soon as possible.
Cheers!
This is the project's first year and the tech / dev side is a one-person show. Which is to say we're extremely cognisant of rough edges, but also super keen for meaningful feedback. Most of which we should be able to implement without fuss :)
Exactly.
The first Earth Day was declared by word of mouth among teenagers in the 1970's.
On short notice without the existence of cell phones or internet.
Viral they would say now.
Interesting what a teenager can do sometimes.