On 5 January 2014 13:34, rajesh <[email protected]> wrote: > I think its a great idea to map each tree, actually each sapling, but go > beyond a simple count. > > What is important when we hear stories like "50,000 trees were planted" is > to be able to followup and see if the survival rate was 1% or 0.01% or > 0.0001% > > If we map every tree we should see how long each tree lives, so we can map > how many are being cut. If not, what is the growth and condition (leaves > covered with dust). Is it concretized at the base or is there soil and air. > Possibly a very depressing picture. > > Lets not worry about productizing or revenue.
We have a mobile-based data collection platform, Fieldata ( http://www.fieldata.org ) that can be used for this, free of cost at the basic tier which should suffice here. One builds a form for the data collection, using our GUI form builder, which contains all details necessary. The data can include GPS locations, photos, etc. The form is downloaded to an application on an Android phone, based on OpenDataKit, and anyone with access can submit data. We would also be glad to help in building the form. To get a quick picture of the facilities available on Fieldata, log in to a demo account from the top right of the home page: User/password = [email protected]/foss.in123 On the dashboard that you arrive at, choose the "Demo questionnaire", and you can have various views of the data from under the "Reports & Data" drop-down towards the top. Data can be exported as CSV. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
