Mosquito Mapper: a phone application to map urban mosquitoes

Abstract

This paper presents mosquito mapper: an android phone application created with the goal of giving science-driven citizens the means to monitor mosquito populations in an urban environment. Mosquito mapper allows the recording of mosquito encounters as well as conditions surrounding the encounter. It also features a rudimentary identification tool. The goal of the application is to create a database and construct a map of the encounters free to consult for citizens and scientists. Such database constitutes a necessary first step for the development of useful management strategies addressing potential human health threats induced by mosquitoes. The citizen scientist may voluntarily provide other additional information on the circumstances of the encounter that may contain scientifically useful information. We describe the current features of the application, showcase the limited data gathered so far, then discuss the strengths, limits, potential scientific value and suggest possible future extensions for the application. The original city for which the application was developed is Berlin, Germany, but the application is coded in such a way that it is easily applicable to any urban environment.

Integrating Global Citizen Science Platforms to Enable Next-Generation Surveillance of Invasive and Vector Mosquitoes

“…The study herein focuses on three mobile apps that are used globally: Mosquito Alert ( , accessed on 30 June 2022), GLOBE Observer ( , accessed on 30 June 2022), and iNaturalist ( , accessed on 30 June 2022). Other mosquito projects are restricted to a single country or region, for example: Argentina (Caza Mosquitos [ 21 ]), Australia (Mozzie Monitors [ 22 ]), France (iMoustique ® [ 23 ]), Germany (Mosquito Mapper [ 24 ] and Mückenatlas [ 25 , 26 , 27 ]), Italy (ZanzaMapp [ 28 ]), the Netherlands (Muggenradar [ 23 ]), Portugal (MosquitoWEB [ 23 ]), Rwanda [ 20 ], Spain (AtrapaelTigre.com [ 23 ]), Tanzania [ 29 ], the UK (Mosquito Reporting Scheme and Mosquito Watch [ 23 ]), and the USA (Mosquito Stoppers [ 30 ], Great Arizona Mosquito Hunt [ 31 ], North American Mosquito Project [ 32 ], and Kidenga [ 33 ]).…”

Building International Capacity for Citizen Scientist Engagement in Mosquito Surveillance and Mitigation: The GLOBE Program’s GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper

“…Citizen scientists may be asked to mail in specimens, or upload data using a web platform or mobile app. A few projects seek to engage youths in surveillance [ 20 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 48 ], and some specifically mention a commitment to open data access [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 , 38 , 41 ].…”

Developing a Mobile Application for Smart Real Estate Information

“…With the integration of big data, cloud computing and WebGIS, the presentation and analysis of geographic data in MobileGIS applications can be faster and the presentation in this environment can be more optimized and uninterrupted. MobileGIS are used in many different applications areas such as monitoring health (Tsou, 2004;Hsueh-Ting et al,2006;Klasnja and Pratt, 2012;Khasha et al, 2018), environmental mapping and monitoring (Arrington et al, 2017;Guilbaud and Guilbaud, 2017;Lindgren, 2017;Nowak et al, 2020); urban planning (Jurado et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2019;Munoz et al, 2019) and mobility (Bandara et al, 2014;Gharbi and Haddidi, 2020).…”