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Lights, Camera...Citizen Science: Assessing The Effectiveness Of Smartphone-Based Video Training In Invasive Plant Identification Dataset, Jared Starr, Charles M. Schweik, Nathan Bush, Lena Fletcher, John T. Finn, Jennifer Fish, Charles T. Bargeron

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The rapid growth and increasing popularity of smartphone technology is putting sophisticated data-collection tools in the hands of more and more citizens. This has exciting implications for the expanding field of citizen science. With smartphone-based applications (apps), it is now increasingly practical to remotely acquire high quality citizen-submitted data at a fraction of the cost of a traditional study. Yet, one impediment to citizen science projects is the question of how to train participants. The traditional “in-person” training model, while effective, can be cost prohibitive as the spatial scale of a project increases. To explore possible solutions, we analyze three …