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Wide Santa Monica Mountains 2. Birds on tree3. Low angle feet of Phil Rundell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at UCLA4. SOUNDBITE (English) Phil Rundell,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eSanta Monica Mountains, Calif. - June 18, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide Santa Monica Mountains \u003cbr/\u003e2. Birds on tree\u003cbr/\u003e3. Low angle feet of Phil Rundell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at UCLA\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Phil Rundell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There are a variety of groups around the world really concerned about invasive species. It perhaps is one of the major environmental issues of the twenty-first century. And I think a unique feature of what our group is doing, is we're trying to get this as a citizen science or, we call it participatory sensing, that's using sensors in the form of a cell phone, to get an educated general public out there to help with these kinds of jobs. One of the kinds of things we're very interested in doing is mapping these distributions and looking at how dynamic they are. We know some of these species are dramatically expanding their ranges.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Group shot research team\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close shot Charlie Hone, botanist\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close shot Spanish Broom flowers, which are native to the Mediterranean but considered an invasive species in California\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Hone, Botanist and Plant Ecologist, National Park Service, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well we were given phones that we were able to take with us into the field when we were doing our normal jobs. And since I am a botanist I'm often surveying vegetation up in the mountains anyway, and so every time I came across a weed like Spanish Broom, especially a new occurrence we didn't know about, all I would have to do is take a photograph of it and it would automatically be linked to a GPS point and we wouldn't have to do any data entry, it doesn't even really slow us down. So we're able to document the occurrence and spread of these plants while we're doing our normal jobs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9.  Close Charlie Hone taking a picture UPSOUND (English) Charlie Hone, Botanist and Plant Ecologist, National Park Service, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area:\"I will take the picture, and then a pull down menu will come up that will ask me what type of plant it is.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Sasank Reddy choosing plant type after taking a picture of a Yellow Starthistle flower\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close Yellow Starthistle\u003cbr/\u003e12.  Low angle Sasank Reddy taking a shot of a flower on UCLA campus UPSOUND (English) Sasank Reddy, graduate student researcher at CENS and a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The cool thing about it is that it shows you where you are located whenever you take the photo so then you can go to the map and see all the other flowers that are around that particular region as well.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close shot \"What's bloomin\" splash screen. \u003cbr/\u003e14. Sasank Reddy points to places on screen where invasive plants were found\u003cbr/\u003e15. UPSOUND (English) Sasank Reddy, graduate student researcher at CENS and a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And then there is also some Spanish broom, especially along the road itself.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sasank Reddy, graduate student researcher at CENS and a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So, similar to the park where we were looking at invasive plants, on campus we wanted to do something where we can explore the flora that exist around our university. So we had students go out into UCLA and take pictures of things that are blooming at the time. So we had an application that students around campus could use and you can capture the actual photo, capture a photo of these flowers around campus.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, Calif. - June 18, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close shot three phones\u003cbr/\u003e18. Phone with screen UPSOUND (English) Sasank Reddy, graduate student researcher at CENS and a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You bring up the \"What's Invasive!\" app (application) on the phone and a nice splash screen will come up  showing all the invasives that you should be on the lookout for. Then you can actually take a picture of the invasive, and you want to tag it with the type of invasive that it actually is.\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. Pan right campaign statistics\u003cbr/\u003e20. Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, walking in hallway\u003cbr/\u003e21. Estrin at her desk with phone\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close shot phone\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So they're one thing, that we find clients and find people who are interested and we develop a campaign for them, like for the national park service. But the real power of the technology is sort of like the Web. That anybody can now go and set up their own web site. And so this has that same potential, that anybody can go and create their own campaign. That side that is on the server, that's on the web, and what can get downloaded to the phone.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eSanta Monica Mountains, Calif. - June 18, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various flowers \u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide shot countryside, Santa Monica Mountains \u003cbr/\u003eScientists at the University of California are developing a way for the public to contribute data to research projects using a ubiquitous sensing device - the smart phone. \u003cbr/\u003eWannabe scientists can also use the new technology to set up their own data campaigns. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the Santa Monica Mountains just north of Los Angeles, National Park Service workers have taken part in a novel form of data gathering using something most people have in their pockets these days - the mobile phone. \u003cbr/\u003eWith more people using smart phones, equipped with cameras and GPS, the Center for Embedded and Networked Sensing at the University of California, Los Angeles has developed a way for anyone with a phone to input data into a project. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Park Service had the perfect problem to solve: they needed to track the ranges of invasive plants that have come to California from other parts of the world. These plants lack natural competitors and often crowd out native species. \u003cbr/\u003ePhil Rundell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at UCLA, is enthusiastic about involving the public in scientific research.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are a variety of groups around the world really concerned about invasive species. It perhaps is one of the major environmental issues of the twenty-first century. And I think a unique feature of what our group is doing, is we're trying to get this as a citizen science or, we call it participatory sensing, that's using sensors in the form of a cell phone, to get an educated general public out there to help with these kinds of jobs. One of the kinds of things we're very interested in doing is mapping these distributions and looking at how dynamic they are. We know some of these species are dramatically expanding their ranges,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the past, the Park Service tracked the growth of the ranges of invasive plants like this yellow flowered Spanish Broom, with hand-written forms and GPS coordinates.\u003cbr/\u003eThe system was inefficient and time consuming for employees who needed to be constantly on the move. \u003cbr/\u003eWith smart phones from CENS, the Park Service collected in a few weeks a quantity of data that had previously taken two years to gather.\u003cbr/\u003eCharlie Hone, a botanist and plant ecologist working for the National Park Service in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, was an enthusiastic participant in the pilot. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well we were given phones that we were able to take with us into the field when we were doing our normal jobs. And since I am a botanist I'm often surveying vegetation up in the mountains anyway, and so every time I came across a weed like Spanish Broom, especially a new occurrence we didn't know about, all I would have to do is take a photograph of it and it would automatically be linked to a GPS point and we wouldn't have to do any data entry, it doesn't even really slow us down. So we're able to document the occurrence and spread of these plants while we're doing our normal jobs,\" he explains. \u003cbr/\u003eInvasive species like Spanish Broom and Harding Grass are often more resilient than local plants and have few if any evolved competitors or animals to check their growth. \u003cbr/\u003eThey can block out the native chaparral or riparian habitats, which are found along creeks and rivers, vastly reducing the number of species that inhabit an area.\u003cbr/\u003eSasank Reddy, a graduate student researcher at CENS and a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, began working on the participatory sensing project last year to find potential applications. \u003cbr/\u003eThe group linked up with students at UCLA's Institute on the Environment to develop on-campus surveys like \"What's Bloomin,\" which allowed students to upload and map blooming flowers on campus. \u003cbr/\u003eStudents submitted about 4,000 photos in only two weeks. \u003cbr/\u003eThis campaign served as a way to test the group's technology before deploying it with the Park Service, but it also got many students enthusiastic about learning about the different types of flowers blooming on the UCLA campus.\u003cbr/\u003eEventually, researchers hope to make the database tool simple enough so that users can adapt it to their own unique projects.\u003cbr/\u003eDeborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UCLA, says smart phones have emerged as the perfect way to bring down the cost of putting sensors in multiple locations for a variety of scientific projects. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter working with ecologists, environmental engineers, seismologists and marine biologists to improve their data collection, the CENS group developed the idea of participatory sensing with cell phones to replace expensive embedded sensors. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The real power of the technology is sort of like the Web. 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