John R. B. Palmer

TL;DR: A pilot study in which volunteers around the world were successfully recruited to share GPS and cellular tower information on their trajectories and respond to dynamic, location-based surveys using an open-source Android application illustrates the great potential of mobile phone methodology for moving spatial measures beyond residential census units and investigating a range of important social phenomena.

TL;DR: A nuanced picture of changes in woody cover in Africa is presented, which challenges widely held views of a general and ongoing reduction of the woody vegetation in Africa.

TL;DR: The first sampling study confirming that adult tiger mosquitoes travel with humans in cars and enabling us to estimate the frequency of these events is reported, and the Bayesian model suggests that of the 6.5 million daily car trips in the Barcelona metropolitan area, between 13,000 and 71,500 facilitate tiger mosquito movement.

TL;DR: It is reported that a scalable citizen science system can provide accurate early warning of the invasion process of the Asian tiger mosquito in Spain, with far more scalable coverage than that of traditional surveillance methods.

TL;DR: This work introduces the Expectation-Maximization binary Clustering (EMbC), a general purpose, unsupervised approach to multivariate data clustering, and focuses on the suitability of the EMbC algorithm for behavioural annotation of movement data.