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Smartphone Sensors for Citizen Science Applications: Light and Sound

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 5 (2020): Issue 1
By: Sten Odenwald  
Open Access
|Jul 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.254 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 16, 2019
Accepted on: May 27, 2020
Published on: Jul 13, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
smartphone,
sensor,
calibration,
citizen science,
light,
sound

© 2020 Sten Odenwald, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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