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  "id": 245493,
  "title": "Curiosity: \"Smartphones could create distributed space weather observatory\"",
  "url": "/competitions/google-smartphone-decimeter-challenge/discussion/245493",
  "author_name": "Carl McBride Ellis",
  "post_date": "2021-06-11T06:31:46.736000",
  "votes": 10,
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  "content": "<p>My apologies if this post is not directly related to the competition but I encountered a curious article in my inbox this morning <a href=\"https://physicsworld.com/a/smartphones-could-create-distributed-space-weather-observatory/\" target=\"_blank\">\"<em>Smartphones could create distributed space weather observatory</em>\"</a>. It is suggested that </p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>\"<em>…significant errors in smartphone magnetometer readings can be caused by solar-storm level disruptions. While these errors have a negative effect on compass and positioning applications, Odenwald believes that this sensitivity could be harnessed to create a citizen science space-weather observatory that covers large swathes of the Earth.</em>\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Although we have access to the uncalibrated magnetometer readings in the raw dataset, I am not sure that compensating for geomagnetic storms will be useful in our leaderboard score. Nevertheless, is fascinating how new technology combined with ingenuity and out of the box thinking can lead to new perspectives about the world around us!</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=8425973\" target=\"_blank\">S. F. Odenwald, \"<em>The Feasibility of Detecting Magnetic Storms With Smartphone Technology</em>\", IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 43460-43471 (2018)</a></li>\n</ul>",
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      "content": "<p>My apologies if this post is not directly related to the competition but I encountered a curious article in my inbox this morning <a href=\"https://physicsworld.com/a/smartphones-could-create-distributed-space-weather-observatory/\" target=\"_blank\">\"<em>Smartphones could create distributed space weather observatory</em>\"</a>. It is suggested that </p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>\"<em>…significant errors in smartphone magnetometer readings can be caused by solar-storm level disruptions. While these errors have a negative effect on compass and positioning applications, Odenwald believes that this sensitivity could be harnessed to create a citizen science space-weather observatory that covers large swathes of the Earth.</em>\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Although we have access to the uncalibrated magnetometer readings in the raw dataset, I am not sure that compensating for geomagnetic storms will be useful in our leaderboard score. Nevertheless, is fascinating how new technology combined with ingenuity and out of the box thinking can lead to new perspectives about the world around us!</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=8425973\" target=\"_blank\">S. F. Odenwald, \"<em>The Feasibility of Detecting Magnetic Storms With Smartphone Technology</em>\", IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 43460-43471 (2018)</a></li>\n</ul>",
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    "1344798": "My apologies if this post is not directly related to the competition but I encountered a curious article in my inbox this morning [\"*Smartphones could create distributed space weather observatory*\"](https://physicsworld.com/a/smartphones-could-create-distributed-space-weather-observatory/). It is suggested that \n\n> \"*...significant errors in smartphone magnetometer readings can be caused by solar-storm level disruptions. While these errors have a negative effect on compass and positioning applications, Odenwald believes that this sensitivity could be harnessed to create a citizen science space-weather observatory that covers large swathes of the Earth.*\"\n\nAlthough we have access to the uncalibrated magnetometer readings in the raw dataset, I am not sure that compensating for geomagnetic storms will be useful in our leaderboard score. Nevertheless, is fascinating how new technology combined with ingenuity and out of the box thinking can lead to new perspectives about the world around us!\n\n* [S. F. Odenwald, \"*The Feasibility of Detecting Magnetic Storms With Smartphone Technology*\", IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 43460-43471 (2018)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8425973)"
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