The Mosquito Alert map implementation

A citizen science use case

GIS Service (SIGTE), University of Girona

marc.compte@udg.edu

https://slides.com/mcompte/mosquitomap/live

Presentation index

The project

The map front-end

The map back-end

The project

http://mosquitoalert.com/en/

Mosquito Alert is a cooperative citizen science observatory coordinated by different public research institutions.

What

Its main objective is to fight against the tiger mosquito and the yellow fever mosquito invasive spreading.

Why

How

Data flow chart

How

The software used in the Mosquito Alert application is free and open source. It is distributed under a license that allows you to use, change, improve the software and redistribute it.

https://github.com/MoveLab

Software licensing

Quadruple helix innovation*

*Martin Curley and Bror Salmelin, Open Innovation 2.0: A New Paradigm

Spheres involved II

Who

Planning, decision-making, risk evaluation, awareness, pest control...

Vector risk predictions, epidemiological modelling, mitigation modelling

Pest control

Data collection and re-usage, knoweldge transfer, awareness

Spheres involved II

Who

Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

https://www.icrea.cat/en/

http://www.ceab.csic.es/en/

http://www.creaf.cat/

Centre for Advanced Studies.

Spanish Research Council (CEAB-CSIC)

Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications

Project coordinators

Figures

Citizens reporting

	2017	2014 - 2017
App downloads	7,415	45,005
Tiger reports	1,760	10,038
YF reports	3	6
Breeding reports	991	2,354

Experts validation

	Tiger confirmed
2017	42%
2016	40%
2015	40%
2014	16%

Scientific impact

	2017
Articles	7
Quoted	2
Conferences	23
Awards	2

Dissemination

	2017
Events	10
Schools	13
Press/TV	127

Internet

	2017
Twitter	1,426
Facebook	4,341
Web visits	25,675
Newsletter	218

Highlights

Source: Palmer et al. (2017). Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool

to track disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Nature Communications

, 8:916.

Barcelona City Awards 2017

Highlights

Source: Eritja et al. (2017). Hitchhiking mosquitoes: Direct Evidence of Adult Aedes albopictus Dispersal by Car.

Scientific Reports, 10:1038.

5 out of every 1,000 daily car trips in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona during the summer carries a tiger mosquito.

The map front-end

http://webserver.mosquitoalert.com/static/tigapublic/spain.html#/en/

The map front-end

Software stack

Categories of validated observations

Distribution of citizens reporting observations

Filtering by time, hashtag or municipality

Public features

The map front-end

Download

Metadata, help

Share this view

Printable reports

Public features

The map front-end

Public features

The map front-end

Print reports

Validation result

Picture

Expert's note

Metadata

Public features

The map front-end

Private features

The map front-end

Validation probability

New observations menu, includes:

Pending validation

Folding feature

Other categories

Private features

The map front-end

Custom layers

Private features

The map front-end

New filters

Notification filters

Private features

The map front-end

New features

Additional data downloaded

Send notifications to app users

The map back-end

Kick-off & developers

            project = start_project(
        
                name='Mosquito Alert', date_start = 'March 2016')

            project.enrole_developer(
        
                name=u'Toni Hernández', python_experience=None, date='March 2016')
        
            project.enrole_developer(
        
                name=u'Àlex Busquets', python_experience='Short', date='March 2016')

project.quit_developer(
    name=u'Àlex Busquets', date='September 2016')

project.enrole_developer(
    name=u'Marc Compte', python_experience=None, date='September 2016')

The map back-end

Requirements

Django==2.0.3
User management, admin interface, routing, models, ...
django-import-export==1.0.0
Import/export spread-sheets or csv files
Pillow==5.0.0
ImageFile fields
psycopg2-binary==2.7.4
PostgreSQL connector
pyproj==1.9.5.1
Proj4 python port
requests==2.18.4
Manage HTTP/1.1 requests

The map back-end

Non requirements

Fiona, Shapely, GeoPandas, PySal, ...
We do very little geo analysis (in PostGIS)
GeoDjango
Our only geometries are points stored in float lat/lon fields
Django REST Framework
We don't need a full CRUD REST API

The map back-end

Developer tools

GIT
Versioning
python runserver
Development server
Atom
Code/text editor. Basic packages:
- autocomplete-python
  Autocomplete methods, functions, ... Show docstrings.
- linter-pylama
  Linter for python. We share the same style-guide (PEP8+PEP257).
- python-indent
  Auto indent code
- atom-ide-ui
  Diagnostics, outline, ...