Fighting Earth's degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical
interest and sources of hot debate in today's society. According to the United Nations, there …

Hydrological monitoring is essential to guide evidence-based decision making necessary for
sustainable water resource management and governance. Limited hydrometric datasets and …

Citizen contributions to science have been successfully implemented in many fields, and
water resources is one of them. Through citizens, it is possible to collect data and obtain a …

Effective flood risk management requires updated information to ensure that the correct
decisions can be made. This can be provided by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) which …

Data are essential in all areas of geophysics. They are used to better understand and
manage systems, either directly or via models. Given the complexity and spatiotemporal …

With increasing urbanization, in recent years there has been a growing interest and need in
monitoring and analyzing urban flood events. Social media, as a new data source, can …

Public participation is a central topic in urban water governance. With the spread of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), urban water governance has …

Floods are one of the most devastating types of worldwide disasters in terms of human,
economic, and social losses. If authoritative data is scarce, or unavailable for some periods …

Crowdsourced data can effectively observe environmental and urban ecosystem processes.
The use of data produced by untrained people into flood forecasting models may effectively …

Citizen Science (CS) projects vary greatly. The aims and goals of a CS project determine the
type of citizen involvement and the tools to be used, which in most cases also entail …