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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Ground Truth 2.0 (Ground Truth 2.0 - Environmental knowledge discovery of human sensed data)

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Summary

Ground Truth 2.0 is delivering the demonstration and validation of six scaled up citizen observatories in real operational conditions both in the EU and in Africa. It is strengthening the full feedback-loop in the information chain from citizen-based data collection to knowledge sharing for joint decision-making and cooperative planning. The project focuses on environmental indicators in urban and rural areas related to spatial planning issues, with a specific focus on flora and fauna as well as water availability and water quality for land and natural resources management. This is supported by an innovative web-based service for worldwide mapping and updating of land use. The overall objectives of Ground Truth 2.0 are to implement sustainable citizen observatories for the demonstration of their societal and economic benefits, and the global market uptake of the Ground Truth 2.0 concept and enabling technologies. The trans-disciplinary Ground Truth 2.0 approach consists of a multi-actor innovation process to combine the social dimensions of citizen observatories with enabling technologies so that their customisation and deployment is tailored to the envisaged societal and economic impacts of the observatories. The demonstration cases (4 EU and 2 African) cover the full \'spectrumâ€™ of citizen-sensed data usage and citizen engagement, and therefore allow testing and validating of the concept and technologies, and evaluation of their impacts under a range of conditions. The combination of demonstration cases as well as the technologies, skills and networks of citizen associations involved via the GT2.0 consortium (a good mix of Industry, SME, NGO, Government, Research and Academia) presents a unique opportunity for positioning the European industry for the roll out and uptake of related technologies and services in the EU, in Africa as well as globally. The involvement of private sector partners and a business development expert ensure global uptake.

Work performed

Based on carefully devised methods for stakeholder analysis, co-design and engagement, Ground Truth 2.0 has successfully completed the co-design of the six citizen observatories in its four European and two African Demo Cases, enabling local stakeholders to to design their citizen observatory (CO) focused on their local needs. All Demo Cases have identified the central challenge they are addressing as well as the specific objectives for their COs, along with identifies for their respective COs. A tailored methodology was developed for coordinating the developments in the six Demonstration Cases with the activities in the Work Packages.

The platforms for five of the six observatories have been developed and are online, including different tools for the data collection. These technical solutions are based on the functional design resulting from the co-design process and on the technical design developed for each case. In addition, Ground Truth 2.0 has been working on validation and quality assurance methods and how to facilitate standard access for the CO data in order to make this information interoperable with other data sources. The initial version of each platform provides those functionalities that had been prioritised by the end users. Three observatories have already been launched to the general public at targeted and carefully prepared launch events and several data collection campaigns were held undertaken by two observatories.

These activities were paralleled by research into the incentives and barriers for stakeholder participation in the observatories, the results of which fed into and guided the tailored engagement efforts in each Demo Case. A comprehensive impact assessment procedure was developed and implemented to trace social, institutional, economic and environmental changes triggered by the six observatories.

Ground Truth 2.0 has been aligning its efforts for building a Land User Mapper with prototypes of project-external parties in order to (eventually) generate a robust Global Land Use Mapper, especially for areas where either OSM data is scarce or remote sensing acquisition is hampered by frequent cloud cover. The Ground Truth 2.0 homepage serves as a prominent place for the unique GT2.0 approach, the Demo Cases and the posts about the latest Demo Case activities.

Final results

The methodology for establishing sustainable, demand-driven COs that is being developed and validated by Ground Truth 2.0 until the end of the project extends beyond the current state of the art in the field of citizen observatories and citizen science by providing a holistic and comprehensive approach to the social, technological and economic aspects of developing such innovative initiatives. This will be accompanied by guidelines for initiatives that are striving for similar goals, lessons from the Ground Truth 2.0 approach and engagement practices, and the results of the technical, socio-economic and institutional impact assessments, as well as recommendations for policy makers. Appropriate business models will be generated for each of the six COs to support their sustainability beyond the lifetime of the project and for distinct GT2.0 products for commercialization purposes, including the land user mapper, the GT2.0 methodology and a tool for checking data quality in COs

During the second half of the project, the platforms of all six COs will be enhanced with feedback and collaboration services. These will facilitate feedback and discussion of environmental issues related to the land-use (change) in local settings which can be used by decision makers for incorporation into their decision support tools. For the Belgian and Swedish Demo Cases, a serious game will be created that can be used for stakeholder participation in policy making.

GT2.0 is aiming to become a reference implementation for a common set of interoperable standards for citizen observatories and strives for the integration of citizen sensed data into GEOSS at the same level as in-situ observations, ensuring sustainability of the data as well as the observatories. The interoperability and standardisation efforts will result in greater opportunities for the adoption and increased added-value of the CO technologies and data, thus contributing to improved market access for these products.

The final project results (social and technological) from the 6 citizen observatories will be presented and showcased at various events, including a final GT2.0 event, in order to promote the global market uptake of the GT 2.0 concept and enabling technologies. Regional authorities will be provided with access to and training on the GT2.0 technologies, demonstration results, methods and guidelines developed in the project.

All of the project efforts will contribute to the active participation and empowerment of citizens in planning, decision making and environmental governance in and beyond the six Ground Truth 2.0 Demonstration Cases.