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Digital Fishers

Nov 20, 2017

Your new Digital Fishers mission (should you choose to accept it)…

The ocean needs you! With close to 100,000 hours of archived video footage⎯and more being continuously captured by Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) underwater cameras⎯you can help scientists answer important questions about the ocean. Play a fun video game that analyzes the behaviour of deep sea marine life.

How are changes in the upper ocean affecting the abundance of organic matter⎯food for deep sea marine life⎯on the ocean floor? How do seasonal variations in oxygen concentration affect flora and fauna in Barkley Canyon, off Canada’s west coast? As a citizen scientist, you can help ONC researchers study species diversity, distribution, and behaviour in this complex ecosystem (Figure 1).

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Digital Fishers | citizen science | video footage | #knowtheocean

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Sablefish study reveals citizen scientists are expert observers

Modern science is starting to take amateur scientists’ observations seriously. The impressive performance of over 500 citizen scientists who signed on for a study counting sablefish off the Tofino coast is heartening proof that we can all play a part in understanding the ocean, says one of the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) scientists who co-authored the study.

That’s a key takeaway for World Oceans Day on 8 June, notes scientist Maia Hoeberechts, ONC associate director of user services (Figure 1).

“This study is about who can help science,” she says. “The theme for this year’s 25th anniversary of World Oceans Day is Our...

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sablefish | citizen science | Digital Fishers | seatube | Oceans 2.0

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May 21, 2014

Sablefish Countdown Redux

Citizen scientists around the world are invited to participate in a new sablefish counting study. Two years after our original Digital Fishing Derby, we are now launching a follow-up study, which will help researchers refine the results from the first study. The goal is to count sablefish, or black cod, that appear in a series of one-minute clips—almost 1,500 clips in total.

How to Participate

Using Digital Fishers, count the number of sablefish (black cod) you see during individual 1-minute video clips. At the end of the 60-second clip, the video pauses. You can then select sablefish (black cod) and a corresponding number (0-12) from the dropdown menu under the Sealife category, as shown below. For...

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Digital Fishers | citizen science

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Digital Fishers: New Sablefish Campaign

Calling all citizen scientists! Ocean researchers need your help in analyzing huge volumes of video that support their discoveries and lead to a better understanding of our ocean planet.   

 

Digital Fishers is a science-oriented crowdsourcing game-with-a-purpose that recruits people on the Web to gather data selected from thousands of hours of video, archived every year from undersea cameras. But, how do we make this massive flood of data scientifically useful. This is where you come in. ...

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Digital Fishers | citizen science | sablefish | video analysis

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Ready to fish? We invite everyone to join our new "fishing derby", which pits citizen scientists (you) against a computer algorithm, a biology class and a doctoral student, in a competition to see who can count the most sablefish.

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sablefish | Fish | Digital Fishers | identification | Research | marine biology | NEPTUNE

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Digital Fishers: New Mission

So far, the many citizen scientists helping us with our archive containing thousands of hours of video has been a great success! Digital Fishers has enabled hundreds of people, with a variety of experience levels, to participate in ocean science research. The video collected by Ocean Networks Canada during installation dives and from underwater cameras installed across the network is being reviewed by scientists and citizen scientists alike, helping us annotate data from the deep sea. You can annotate, or describe, the various objects and animals you see by selecting from the fields on the screen. Categories to describe include sea life, water clarity, seafloor composition, and any other objects you see (natural or human made).

Our first mission to have citizen...

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Digital Fishers | Count | Research | citizen science | identification | marine biology | NEPTUNE

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Mar 25, 2012

Super Digital Fisher Contributes 10000 Annotations

Digital Fishers, a crowdsourcing tool, which uses the input of citizen scientists such as Harold Smith to answer questions about marine biology.

Citizen scientist Harold Smith has now contributed over 10,000 annotations to Ocean Networks Canada's video database using the Digital Fishers crowdsourcing tool. 

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How can we tap the wisdom of the crowd? “Crowd Truthing,” also known as “crowd sourcing” is one approach, in which hundreds or thousands of individuals analyze numerous small segments of very large data sets. The collective findings are then sifted to answer questions no single researcher could hope to tackle alone. This approach is being used with great success to help scientists do everything from classify galaxies to map craters on the moon.

Researchers at the University of Victoria wondered if crowd sourcing might be harnessed to identify and classify fish swimming through Ocean Networks Canada’s many hundreds of hours of underwater video archives. Two biology...

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