Citation: Alessandro Quarto, Domenico Soldo, Antonella Giove, Alberto Amato, "Social Network for Human-based Environmental Monitoring", 2010 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems Taranto, Italy, 9 September 2010, pp. 46-51
Abstract: The use of a social network for monitoring a geographic area introduces the possibility of realizing new applications. Monitoring wide area with video-surveillance and remote sensing techniques is extremely expensive in relation to the spatial and temporal resolution. This means involving inhabitants, workers and visitors of parks, urban and heritage wide areas in environmental monitoring. In this paper the idea is integrating data from human activity with web-based technologies. The aim is designing a social network for sharing and publishing images and comments about the monitored environment. The social network presents communication instruments characterized by the simplification of the interface between the application and the registered users. To this end a tool for evaluating images and comments submitted by through simple communication instruments - such as: Multimedia Message Services (MMS) and Short Message Service (SMS) - is integrated.
Keyword: environmental monitoring, Social Network, SMS, MMS, email