NASA Launches Earth Science Challenges with OpenNEX Cloud Data “NASA is launching two challenges to give the public an opportunity to create innovative ways to use data from the agency’s Earth science…
Category: Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing Sunspot Classification
‘Hot or Not?’ Trinity Astrophysicists Ask Public to Rank Sunspots, Trinity College Dublin ‘Sunspots’ and ‘solar storms’ are the feature of an ambitious project being launched internationally by astrophysicists at Trinity College…
Citizen Science and Interstellar Bubbles
Leveraging Citizen Science and Machine Learning to Detect Interstellar Bubbles, astro-ph.GA “We present Brut, an algorithm to identify bubbles in infrared images of the Galactic midplane. Brut is based on the Random…
Crowdsourcing a Sky Map
Towards Building a Crowd-Sourced Sky Map “We describe a system that builds a high dynamic-range and wide-angle image of the night sky by combining a large set of input images. The method…