Collaborating with Safecast

[Levi Simons]

To the PLOTS community,

I'm a high school science teacher and researcher out in Los Angeles
who has been working with a community radiation mapping project called
Safecast (site: http://www.safecast.org ) since last spring. We've
done most of our mapping on the fallout in Japan, although we do have
radiation data scattered around the globe now. We're now planning on
incorporating more geotagged environmental data, such as particulate
matter concentration in the atmosphere, and pooling all of the data on
an open mapping platform GeoSense (temporary site:
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/geosense/ )we're building with
our team at MIT.

In short, we started mostly with a few hacker groups in the US and
Japan and were able to get over 2 million data points in the year
following the Fukushima meltdown. We're looking for collaborators to
help us collect environmental data towards the longer term goal of
having an open large-scale environmental monitoring system. We'll
have the platform to host your data, we're just looking for people
willing to share the data.

Please let us know if you're interested.

Thanks!

[jonb...@yahoo.com]

Hi Levi,I'm very interested and live in the area, too. i'm Creating a APP to show radiation readings form residential areas to the geosense mapping system. Just been think of ways to enhance a broader land mass included in the readings. Thanks ,jon Blauner