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With the location awareness capabilities (GPS, A-GPS) increasingly found in modern smart phones I am very interested in the potential use of mobile phones as personal data collecting devices. I believe the capability to geograhically reference sensed information offers exciting opportunities, empowering individuals to survey and investigate phenomenon in their local environment. As an application of this concept I am researching how Citizen Sensing might be applied to measure and record aircraft noise levels in the communities surrounding London's Heathrow Airport.