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Adopt a Pixel 3 km, a new NESEC peer-reviewed publication

Adopt a Pixel 3 km, a new NESEC peer-reviewed publication


On November 18, 2021, the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC, https://science.nasa.gov/science-activation-team/nesec) team members published a new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Climate, entitled “Adopt a Pixel 3 km: A Multiscale Data Set Linking Remotely Sensed Land Cover Imagery with Field Based Citizen Science Observation.” This data report documents Adopt a Pixel 3 km, a method for systematically collecting GLOBE Land Cover and Mosquito Habitat data with the GLOBE Observer app and classifying correlated high resolution satellite imagery. It documents data collected and analyses done by 74 high school research interns participating in the STEM Enhancement in Earth Sciences (SEES) summer research experience. Team members responsible for the publication included Dr. Russanne Low, Peder Nelson, Cassie Soeffing, Andrew Clark, and the 2020 SEES Mosquito Mappers Research cohort. Read the paper: Low, R.D., Nelson, P.V., Soeffing, C., Clark, A., SEES 2020 Mosquito Mappers Research Team. (2021) Adopt a Pixel 3 km: A Multiscale Data Set Linking Remotely Sensed Land Cover Imagery with Field Based Citizen Science Observation. Frontiers in Climate, 18. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.658063. Award No. NNX16AE28A

The image shows examples of images produced during the gridded, systematic collection of citizen science data that can be compared with coinciding satellite data. From https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.658063

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