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This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists to citizens and from policy makers to environmental organisations have been involved in its practice. In addition, many scientists also study citizen science as a research approach and as a way for science and society to interact and collaborate. This book provides a representation of the practices as well as scientific and societal outcomes in different disciplines. It reflects the contribution of citizen science to societal development, education, or innovation and provides and overview of the field of actors as well as on tools and guidelines. It serves as an introduction for anyone who wants to get involved in and learn more about the science of citizen science.

Communication Studies --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary --- Environment Studies --- Multimedia Information Systems --- Media and Communication --- Humanities and Social Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Citizen science tools and guidelines --- Data quality, standardization, interoperability --- Evaluation and quality criteria in citizen science --- Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity --- Knowledge transfer and science communication --- Open Access --- User interface design & usability --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Society & Social Sciences --- The environment --- Graphical & digital media applications

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The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical, technological, and social aspects of geoinformation methods, as applied to supporting citizen science. Specifically, the book focuses on the technological aspects of the field and their application toward the recruitment of volunteers and the collection, management, and analysis of geotagged information to support volunteer involvement in scientific projects. Internationally renowned research groups share research in three areas: First, the key methods of geoinformatics within citizen science initiatives to support scientists in discovering new knowledge in specific application domains or in performing relevant activities, such as reliable geodata filtering, management, analysis, synthesis, sharing, and visualization; second, the critical aspects of citizen science initiatives that call for emerging or novel approaches of geoinformatics to acquire and handle geoinformation; and third, novel geoinformatics research that could serve in support of citizen science.

volunteer geographic information --- positional accuracy --- land administration systems --- location-based social networks (LBSNs) --- clustering --- user preference --- social relationship effect --- spatial proximity --- crowdsourcing --- volunteered geographic information (VGI) --- ensemble --- classification accuracy --- latent class analysis --- OpenStreetMap --- VGI --- community mapping --- data analysis --- GIS education --- data import --- citizen science --- marine mammal --- opportunistic data --- Alaska --- spatial bias --- sample size --- volunteer --- education --- recruitment --- Pentatomidae --- Environmental niche modeling --- citizen science --- crowdsourcing --- MaxEnt --- QGIS --- brown marmorated stink bug --- air quality estimation --- air pollution --- citizen science --- sky images --- social media --- data fusion --- citizen science --- volunteered geographic information (VGI) --- toponym --- crowdsourced data collection --- data quality --- GIS --- digital cartography --- algorithms --- spatial accuracy --- analysis --- OpenStreetMap --- citizen science --- geoinformatics --- projects survey --- geoinformation in citizen science --- VGI in citizen science --- crowdsourced geoinformation collection and analysis