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CO data were evaluated over the landscape by expert knowledge and found to be representative of the major SM distribution processes but also presenting some indifferent short-range variability that was difficult to explain at this scale. The proposed models were evaluated using statistical metrics: The coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE). Multiple linear regression provides more realistic spatial patterns over the landscape, even in a data-poor environment. Regression kriging was found to be a potential tool to refine the results, while ordinary cokriging was found to be less effective. The obtained results showed that CO data complemented with Sentinel-1B SAR, Landsat 8, and terrain data has the potential to estimate and map soil moisture content.</p></article>", "keywords": ["13. 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This paper analyses the interactions and effects of the 5 Concepts: Open Agricultural Data, Open-Source Software, Citizen Science, privacy and legal and ethical issues that are assumed to advance the digitalization of African Food System (AFS and the enabling Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) - SmartAfriHub (https://www.smartafrihub.com/home).</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies", "Citizen Science", "Agricultural and Food Policy", "Open Data", "Africa Smart Agriculture", "1. No poverty", "15. 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The research aims to take the first steps in closing the gap in the literature on COs\u2019 potential contributions to the SDG framework, beyond quantitative data contributions for indicator monitoring. Following an analysis of project activities and outcomes mapped against the SDG framework, the findings reveal GROW\u2019s potential contributions across two dimensions: (i) Actions to advance the implementation of goals and targets through awareness raising and training; participatory methods; multi-stakeholder connections; and supporting citizens to move from data to action and (ii) Data contributions to SDG indicator monitoring through citizen-generated datasets. While earlier research has focused mostly on the latter (dimension ii), CO activities can impact numerous goals and targets, highlighting their potential to relate global SDGs to local level action, and vice versa. These findings align with the growing literature on COs\u2019 ability to bring together policy makers, scientists and citizens, and support changes to environmental policy and practice. Furthermore, this research suggests groundwork activities that address the goal and target level can also enhance sustained data collection to contribute to indicator level monitoring. We conclude with future trends and recommendations for COs wishing to contribute to the SDGs.</p></article>", "keywords": ["participatory policy making", "330", "Sustainable Development Goals", "open data", "01 natural sciences", "333", "sustainable development Goals", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "citizen science", "11. 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This review synthesizes findings from the following: (i) a systematic analysis of peer-reviewed literature and grey sources, (ii) a database of 96 CS initiatives compiled by the European PREPSOIL project, and (iii) questionnaire surveys and workshops conducted in five Living Labs across Europe. Our analysis indicates that volunteer-driven monitoring can enhance the volume and granularity of soil data, providing critical insights into parameters such as organic carbon content, nutrient levels, and pollutant concentrations. However, persistent challenges remain, including inconsistencies in data validation, volunteer attrition, and concerns regarding digital literacy and data privacy. Despite these challenges, ongoing efforts to standardize protocols, integrate remote sensing and sensor-based validation methods, and employ feedback mechanisms improve data reliability and participant engagement. We conclude that sustained capacity-building, transparent data governance, and stakeholder collaboration, from local communities to governmental bodies, are essential for fully realizing the potential of citizen science in soil conservation. This work is framed within the context of the European Soil Mission, and CS is demonstrated to meaningfully support sustainable land management and evidence-based policymaking by aligning public-generated observations with established scientific frameworks.</p></article>", "keywords": ["community stewardship", "remote sensing", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "volunteer engagement", "soil health", "soil monitoring", "citizen science", "open data", "data validation", "policy integration", "biodiversity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/11/5042/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/su17115042"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Sustainability", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/su17115042", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/su17115042", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/su17115042"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-05-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3897/aca.8.e156903", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-20T16:19:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-06-02", "title": "Collaborative Soil Health Assessment: Integrating Citizen and Scientist Perspectives", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Over 60% of European soils are considered unhealthy, which clearly calls for a transformation towards sustainable soil management. Taking care of our soils is imperative, since they are key components of our ecosystems and provide up to 99% of our food. Agricultural long-term field experiments (LTEs) are key to understanding how different agroecological practices affect the soil and have existed since the 1850s in Europe and beyond. LTEs can be seen as core sites that allow researchers extended measurements and monitoring of the trends and change and enable policy makers to gain a deeper understanding into soils, especially in times of climate change. However, they alone will not be able to transform the public perception of soil health and give reasons to protect and enhance soil health. Participatory citizen science is a research method that actively involves and engages the public in hands-on scientific enquiry to generate new knowledge or understanding. Most of the soil citizen science projects so far have been focusing on biodiversity, a weak point in European soil monitoring. Thus, actively engaged citizens could help to evolve our knowledge about the most appropriate field soil health indicators to test the effectiveness of different potentially sustainable soil management practices. This presentation will highlight a transdisciplinary effort from citizens and scientists in assessing soil health at a case study area in the Marchfeld in eastern Austria. We will highlight how soil biological, chemical and physical properties - key aspects of soil health - can be measured by both citizens and researchers, to assess soil health for maintaining fertile soils for future generations and ensuring ongoing food production. Promoting co-creation, fostering knowledge-sharing networks and enabling long-term communication and commitment with citizens will be highlighted as success factors for continuing transdisciplinary cooperation among diverse soil health stakeholders.</p></article>", "keywords": ["soil health", "participatory soil citizen science", "soil health assessment", "long-term experiment"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.8.e156903"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/ARPHA%20Conference%20Abstracts", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3897/aca.8.e156903", "name": "item", "description": "10.3897/aca.8.e156903", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3897/aca.8.e156903"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-06-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.10218825", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-20T16:19:47Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Preliminary table of Citizen Science initiatives for monitoring soil health", "description": "This matrix is the result of collaborative work for Deliverable 1.1 (WP1; T1.1) of the ECHO project. It facilitated the creation of an overview of the current state of the art in projects, initiatives, or activities that have already involved citizens in monitoring soil health, from both inside and outside the European Union. From this, strategic recommendations for ECHO were derived, ensuring that this project not only makes a valuable contribution to the field of soil health monitoring but also sets a precedent for future citizen science endeavors.", "keywords": ["CITIZEN SCIENCE", "STATE OF THE ART", "13. Climate action", "11. 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These findings align with the growing literature on COs\u2019 ability to bring together policy makers, scientists and citizens, and support changes to environmental policy and practice. Furthermore, this research suggests groundwork activities that address the goal and target level can also enhance sustained data collection to contribute to indicator level monitoring. We conclude with future trends and recommendations for COs wishing to contribute to the SDGs.</p></article>", "keywords": ["participatory policy making", "330", "Sustainable Development Goals", "open data", "01 natural sciences", "333", "sustainable development Goals", "63 Sociolog\u00eda", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "citizen science", "11. 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The scientific purposes of GROW observatory are to test the data\u00a0 quality and the spatial representativity of a citizen engagement driven spatial distribution as reliably inputs for soil moisture monitoring and to create timely series of gridded soil moisture products based on citizens\u2019 observations using low cost soil moisture (SM) sensors, and to provide an extensive dataset of in situ soil moisture observations which can serve as a reference to validate satellite-based SM products and support the Copernicus in situ component. 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Many of the insights gained have been synthesised into this detailed research and innovation roadmap for future Citizen Observatories, outlining focus areas, dedicated pathways and proposed actions in each of them. The aim of this roadmap is to outline a dynamic landscape and provide actionable pathways to further advance Citizen Observatories\u2019 capabilities and impacts in the future. It is targeted at Citizen Observatory practitioners (research institutions, civil society organisations, public authorities and others) for conceptualising and directing key aspects of future Citizen Observatories; at national funding agencies of EU member states to identify potential scenarios for funding Citizen Observatories nationally; as well as for the European Commission as a consultation document for shaping Horizon Europe programme funding calls.", "keywords": ["Citizen Observatories", " citizen science", " roadmap"], "contacts": [{"organization": "WeObserve Consortium", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/17432/1/WeObserveRoadmap-final_v1.0.pdf"}, {"href": "http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/17432/1/WeObserveRoadmap-final_v1.0.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4646773"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.4646773", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.4646773", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.4646773"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.7160/aol.2021.130404", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-20T16:21:32Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-12-16", "title": "INSPIRE Hackathons and SmartAfriHub \u2013 Roadmap for Addressing the Agriculture Data Challenges in Africa", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Digital farming holds enormous potential for agricultural development, and giving farmers the tools to boost productivity and profitability. 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This paper analyses the interactions and effects of the 5 Concepts: Open Agricultural Data, Open-Source Software, Citizen Science, privacy and legal and ethical issues that are assumed to advance the digitalization of African Food System (AFS and the enabling Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) - SmartAfriHub (https://www.smartafrihub.com/home).</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies", "Citizen Science", "Agricultural and Food Policy", "Open Data", "Africa Smart Agriculture", "1. No poverty", "15. 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We present key insights from WeObserve activities into leveraging challenges to create interlinked solutions, connecting with international frameworks and groups, advancing the field through communities of practice and practitioner networks, and fostering an enabling environment for COs. We also discuss how the new Horizon Europe funding programme can help to further advance the CO concept, and vice versa, how COs can provide a suitable mechanism to support the ambitions of Horizon Europe.</p></article>", "keywords": ["public engagement with science and technology", "citizen science", "environmental communication", "engagement with science and technology", "Citizen science", "Environmental communication", "01 natural sciences", "004", "63 Sociolog\u00eda", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "12. 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Jumping worms (family Megascolecidae) originating in Asia have been spreading in North America, extending their northern range limits to Ontario, Canada in the last decade and to New Brunswick in 2021. At the northern limits of their current range, little research has been done to examine the effects of jumping worms in these new habitats since their recent establishment. Our objectives were to evaluate: (1) how jumping worms impact soil nitrogen and soil carbon; (2) how their presence impacts the abundance of non-native European earthworms (family Lumbricidae); and (3) whether two sampling methods (i.e., mustard solution and wooden discs) are equally effective at detecting jumping worms. We sampled a residential property in Oromocto, New Brunswick, which was the first location where jumping worms were found in the province. Jumping worms did not have significant impacts on the abundance and biomass of European earthworms or soil carbon content in the top 5 cm of the soil, but they did significantly affect soil nitrogen levels. Both sampling methods were equally effective at detecting the presence of jumping worms. Further research is needed in managed landscapes, urban areas, and forests to determine the ecosystem impacts and invasion dynamics of jumping worms in Canada as this invasion progresses.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Ecosystem engineer", "13. Climate action", "Megascolecidae", "Non-native species", "European earthworm", "Citizen science", "15. 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In winter 2022-2023, a typical seabird of the North Atlantic, the razorbill Alca torda, irrupted in unusual large numbers in the Mediterranean. Mining social networks, we estimated the spatio-temporal progression of the irruption event and reported first data on the foraging habits of razorbills, at regional level.", "keywords": ["auks; citizen science; diet; irruption; Mediterranean Sea; razorbill"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/510538/3/ABSTRACT%20BOOK_BIOCHANGE_Fano2024_FMonti.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/20.500.14243/510538"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "20.500.14243/510538", "name": "item", "description": "20.500.14243/510538", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/20.500.14243/510538"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "3209646013", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-20T16:22:53Z", "type": "Report", "title": "EU Citizen Observatories Landscape Report II: Addressing the Challenges of Awareness, Acceptability, and Sustainability", "description": "Citizen Observatories (COs) are community-based environmental monitoring initiatives that invite the public to contribute observations, data and information in complement to authoritative, traditional insitu and remote sensing Earth Observation data. 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CO data were evaluated over the landscape by expert knowledge and found to be representative of the major SM distribution processes but also presenting some indifferent short-range variability that was difficult to explain at this scale. The proposed models were evaluated using statistical metrics: The coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE). Multiple linear regression provides more realistic spatial patterns over the landscape, even in a data-poor environment. Regression kriging was found to be a potential tool to refine the results, while ordinary cokriging was found to be less effective. The obtained results showed that CO data complemented with Sentinel-1B SAR, Landsat 8, and terrain data has the potential to estimate and map soil moisture content.</p></article>", "keywords": ["13. 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