Feedback and Evaluation of LandSense Demonstration Cases

The LandSense Citizen Observatory offers a wide breadth of citizen science and crowdsourcing approaches to address key questions within the domain of land use and land cover monitoring. Some of the LandSense pilots focused on in-situ observations using mobile apps, whereas other pilots were centered around satellite-image interpretations during dedicated mapathons. The design and implementation of the seven demonstration pilots across seven countries covering the urban, agriculture and forest habitat domains led to key discoveries and lessons learned by the consortium. We share stakeholder and volunteer feedback and provide a self-evaluation of all demonstration pilots, while addressing sustainability and further exploitation potential. This deliverable provides an overview of the LandSense demonstration cases in the urban, agriculture and forest habitat domains, each of which is described in more details in deliverables D4.5 (Demo 1: Cost reduction and data conflation in monitoring land change II), D4.6 (Demo 2: Monitoring agricultural land use and provision of value-added agricultural services II) and D4.7 (Demo 3: Forest and habitat monitoring using innovative technologies II). Each case is described, followed by a summary of the generic feedback gathered from experiences with running each case and an evaluation. The evaluation is based on the following criteria: • Number of users engaged • Number of downloads of the app; • Number of observations collected; • Uptake of the solution by local authorities, organizations, incorporation into business solutions; and • Other impacts. Although other LandSense KPIs were formulated to monitor and evaluate the LandSense project as a whole (available in the third Period Technical Report), these aforementioned measures, in particular, represent a way to reflect on the performance of each demonstration case. This is followed by recommendations arising from this evaluation for future citizen observatories on land use and land cover (LULC)