Harnessing Twitter and crowdsourcing to augment aurora forecasting
The aurora borealis and aurora australis are beautiful space weather driven events whose sighting is typically based on luck given that forecasting is not spatially or temporally precise. To help increase the accuracy and timeliness of auroral forecasting, we have designed a multi-faceted system cal...
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ftulancaster:oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:75123 2023-08-27T04:08:33+02:00 Harnessing Twitter and crowdsourcing to augment aurora forecasting Lalone, Nicolas Tapia, Andrea MacDonald, Elizabeth Case, Nathan Hall, Michelle Clayton, Jessica Heavner, Matt 2015-03 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/75123/ https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702671 unknown ACM Lalone, Nicolas and Tapia, Andrea and MacDonald, Elizabeth and Case, Nathan and Hall, Michelle and Clayton, Jessica and Heavner, Matt (2015) Harnessing Twitter and crowdsourcing to augment aurora forecasting. In: CSCW'15 Companion Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. ACM, New York, pp. 9-12. ISBN 9781450329460 Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings PeerReviewed 2015 ftulancaster https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702671 2023-08-03T22:27:57Z The aurora borealis and aurora australis are beautiful space weather driven events whose sighting is typically based on luck given that forecasting is not spatially or temporally precise. To help increase the accuracy and timeliness of auroral forecasting, we have designed a multi-faceted system called Aurorasaurus. This system allows crisis management specialists to test reactions to rare event notifications, space weather scientists to get direct sighting information of auroras (complete with pictures), and science education researchers to evaluate the impact of educational materials about the aurora and the physics surrounding this unique phenomenon. Through manual tweet verification and directly reported aurora borealis or aurora australis sightings, everyday users help make space weather and aurora forecasting more accurate. Text aurora australis Lancaster University: Lancaster Eprints Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing 9 12 |
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The aurora borealis and aurora australis are beautiful space weather driven events whose sighting is typically based on luck given that forecasting is not spatially or temporally precise. To help increase the accuracy and timeliness of auroral forecasting, we have designed a multi-faceted system called Aurorasaurus. This system allows crisis management specialists to test reactions to rare event notifications, space weather scientists to get direct sighting information of auroras (complete with pictures), and science education researchers to evaluate the impact of educational materials about the aurora and the physics surrounding this unique phenomenon. Through manual tweet verification and directly reported aurora borealis or aurora australis sightings, everyday users help make space weather and aurora forecasting more accurate. |
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Lalone, Nicolas and Tapia, Andrea and MacDonald, Elizabeth and Case, Nathan and Hall, Michelle and Clayton, Jessica and Heavner, Matt (2015) Harnessing Twitter and crowdsourcing to augment aurora forecasting. In: CSCW'15 Companion Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. ACM, New York, pp. 9-12. ISBN 9781450329460 |
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