Collecting and Processing Distributed Data for Decision Support in Social Ecology

Abstract

The problems of environmental awareness in the population were considered. Distributed sources of information were revealed and analyzed to evaluate such awareness. The data on search queries and messages in social groups were used to estimate patterns of environment-related mass activities in the cyberspace and the real world of Russian regions. The results obtained demonstrate opportunities of distributed data collection for a real-time decision making as compared with sociological surveys.