Dec 19, 2019 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano – UCM We are using two different approaches to characterize street lights. The first one is by observing the spectrum of the lamp with a grating on top of the smartphone camera: #StreetSpectra project. The other ACTION pilot project analyses...
Oct 20, 2019 | News from our pilots
By Neal Reeves – University of Southampton Earlier this year, members of the ACTION team from the University of Southampton submitted a research paper on the effects of adding time limits to online citizen science projects. Typically, these projects last for...
Oct 18, 2019 | News from our pilots
By Virginia de Pablo and Esteban Gonzaléz (OEG/UPM) “While computer algorithms have trouble distinguishing between stars the Moon and cities, people are better at recognizing patterns and analyzing complex images.” With these words, Alejandro Sánchez,...
Oct 10, 2019 | News from our pilots
With the help of amateur astronomers we are beginning to test the data gathering for the StreetSpectra project. Citizens belonging to Agrupación Astronómica de Madrid (AAM), AstroHenares and Agrupación Astronómica Madrid Sur (AAMS) have received a talk, the manual (in...
Apr 8, 2019 | News from our pilots
Nuria, Castel, NILU, 8.04.2019 On the 8th of April, 80 high school students gathered at Kuben high school in Oslo, Norway, for a student conference. In the weeks before the conference, they had been busy building and programming low-cost air quality sensors and...
