Untitled DocumentCollecting, assessing, integrating and visualizing data from diverse sources for drought monitoring: a proposed extension of AHIS
Macro Theme Area:
Knowledge Transfer [Project ID: K62]
PI:
Gary Woodard
CO-PI(s):
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Basin focus:
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Specific area in
basin /
field sites:
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Summary/Goals: This project is funded under a Center-Directed Initiatives grant through the Water Sustainability Program and reports on a fiscal year basis.
The overall objective of this project is to develop the drought-related components of the AHIS system specifically by analyzing the value and quality of data collected by volunteer citizen scientists and developing semi-automatic correction mechanisms.
Activities and outcomes during past year:
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Plans for the upcoming year:
The work will begin July 2007 and conclude by May 2008. Specific deliverables include:
• overview of knowledge and state of art in addressing QA/QC issues of volunteer network data (Aug. '07)
• analysis of actual QA/QC problems within RainLog data logged by volunteers, and data automatically collected from tipping bucket rain gauges and loggers (Oct. '07)
• recommendations for developing automatic and semi-automatic approaches for data adjustments (Jan. '08)
• implementation of automatic and semi-automatic QA/QC methodologies for RainLog (May '08)
• recommendations for QA/QC approaches for other volunteer network data, in the broader context of SAHRA drought-related research, including Troch's assessment work for the Colorado River basin.
• Masters thesis and journal article (June 2008)
