Citizen science based marine environmental monitoring. The MOANA60 Experience Paolo Diviacco OGS, Italy Massimiliano Iurcev OGS, Italy Rodrigo Carbajales OGS, Italy Alessandro Busato OGS, Italy Mihai Burca OGS, Italy Alberto Viola OGS, Italy Nikolas Potleca OGS, Italy Sara Zanardi Moana60 Spirit of Community A.P.S, Italy Ilaria Cunico Moana60 Spirit of Community A.P.S, Italy Nicola Pino Moana60 Spirit of Community A.P.S, Italy This is a section of Ninth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques”(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1) by Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci Firenze University Press Firenze 2022 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1.40

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Sea water quality monitoring is extremely demanding and expensive. This results in the sea being largely under-sampled. To solve this OGS developed innovative technologies to be used within a citizen science approach. The simultaneous installation of remote sensing devices on boats of opportunity allows to build a monitoring infrastructure able to acquire, process, validate and display in real-time georeferenced data on a web portal. This work reports on a survey done in collaboration with the Moana 60 Lab initiative in the South Thyrrenian Sea.

 Sea water quality monitoring Citizen science Low-cost sensors IoT South Thyrrenian Sea

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