SciDevNet: Simple data logging devices can help forest communities map their land and monitor environmental change, according to researchers running a trial.
An ongoing project by NGO the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) encourages indigenous people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, to use portable, satellite-linked data loggers to create maps of areas that have not been mapped in great detail, or where existing maps are out of date.
These devices help communities visualise their......
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Forest communities map their land using data loggers
Posted by SciDevNet: None Given on June 8th, 2015
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