Smart Citizen Science in pluvial flood disaster risk reduction: Building a Smart Application as one tool for local drain path identification (Work in progress)

Abstract

Over the last years, flood risk has increased, and the threat of flooding has caused severe damages for economy, society and infrastructure. Hence, the project Urban Flood Resilience- Smart Tools (FloReST) was initiated by six partners from the field of civil engineering, informatics and hydrology to research on tools for high-resolution drain path identification and risk mapping. In this context, a mobile application shall be developed for crowdsourced data collection in civil society. Still being in the early stages of development, a first requirement catalogue for the application is presented and discussed, showing that especially data control is a problematic issue in Citizen Science.