Collective View is a citizen science project that seeks to complement traditional monitoring techniques, supporting validation points that allow Satellite Remote Sensing to improve its levels of precision. The project has been developed by researchers from the Department of Observation and Study of the Earth, the Atmosphere and the Ocean of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Chetumal unit, based on a collaborative scheme for the capture of images, algorithms of artificial intelligence for the automatic classification of photographs and geographic information systems for the visualization of results. The main objective of the project is to generate distribution maps of sargassum along the beaches, using images collected and sent by the society. Through the use of an application available for mobile devices, the citizen can send images of the beach conditions. This information is stored on cloud servers and, later, the images are classified and processed so that various products can be produced, such as, for example, statistics of citizen participation by region or distribution maps of sargassum along the beach. , which in turn can support decision-making.

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Source: Article on Este País newspaper by Javier Arellano-Verdejo y Hugo Enrique Lazcano Hernández -15.12.2020

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