GLOBE Observer Data: 2016–2019

Authors

Helen M. Amos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Matthew J. Starke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Tina M. Rogerson, NASA Langley Research Center
Marilé Colón Robles, NASA Langley Research Center
Travis Anderson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Rebecca Boger, CUNY Brooklyn CollegeFollow
Brian A. Campbell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Russanne D. Low, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Peder Nelson, Oregon State University
David Overoye, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jessica E. Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center
Kristen L. Weaver, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Trena M. Ferrell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Holli Kohl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Theresa G. Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-13-2020

Abstract

This technical report summarizes the GLOBE Observer data set from 1 April 2016 to 1 December 2019. GLOBE Observer is an ongoing NASA‐sponsored international citizen science project that is part of the larger Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, which has been in operation since 1995. GLOBE Observer has the greatest number of participants and geographic coverage of the citizen science projects in the Earth Science Division at NASA. Participants use the GLOBE Observer mobile app (launched in 2016) to collect atmospheric, hydrologic, and terrestrial observations. The app connects participants to satellite observations from Aqua, Terra, CALIPSO, GOES, Himawari, and Meteosat. Thirty‐eight thousand participants have contributed 320,000 observations worldwide, including 1,000,000 georeferenced photographs. It would take an individual more than 13 years to replicate this effort. The GLOBE Observer app has substantially increased the spatial extent and sampling density of GLOBE measurements and more than doubled the number of measurements collected through the GLOBE Program. GLOBE Observer data are publicly available (at observer.globe.gov).

Comments

This work was originally published in Earth and Space Science, available at 10.1029/2020EA001175

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