I wrote an article for various blogs to share Landslide Reporter when it launched to the public. A small snippet of the article is below.
Photo Credit: FEMA/Lee Snyder
Landslides cause billions of dollars in property damage and thousands of deaths every year worldwide. Scientists here at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are building a massive open worldwide database for landslide research, and we are calling upon volunteers to contribute!
Landslide Reporter is part of a larger project launched called the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository, or COOLR. The goal of the COOLR project is to create the largest global public online landslide catalog available for everyone to share, download, and analyze landslide information. In order to build a catalog of this size that encompasses the entire Earth’s landslide activity, NASA scientists are turning to crowdsourcing and citizen science.
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Read the original article on the CitizenScience.gov blog.
Read the article on the SciStarter blog.
Introductory Video
A bonus separate from the blog post, I also created this video to publicize Landslide Reporter, available on the Landslide Reporter website. Check it out!