Thanks a lot Shree. I will get in touch with them.
Just to update the group. I did a small POC recently to see if its achievable. I think its quite possible even-though a little difficult. I posted the results on my blog a few minutes back. http://thejeshgn.com/2014/03/06/bangalore-tree-survey-poc-results/ I am pasting the content here for easy access. Please do reply, specially regarding the questions <http://thejeshgn.com/?author=1>Bangalore Tree Survey – POC Results<http://thejeshgn.com/2014/03/06/bangalore-tree-survey-poc-results/> by Thejesh GN <http://thejeshgn.com/?author=1> Bangalore, once upon a time called Garden city, still has quite a bit of green cover. Almost every week we read a story about cutting down trees for some reason. But nobody knows the details, including the people who write those articles. I thought it would be great if you had a baseline survey of trees, which can be used for comparing, or many other stories and studies. But imagine mapping every public tree (tress in public areas like road, parks etc) in Bangalore. It will probably take years if I start doing it alone. But then there wa no way to find out other than trying it out. So I asked DataMeet<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datameet/Yi75C8sTZps> as usual. I figured that a PoC by me would be a great place to begin. Hence I installed ODK on my phone and ODK aggregator<https://openbangalore.appspot.com/> on server to collect the survey data. That was easier than I thought. Then this monday I walked around for 15 minutes<http://runkeeper.com/user/thej/activity/312721051?&tripIdBase36=566p3v> to survey the trees, in an area which has lots of trees. I mapped around 18 tress in 15 minutes by walking half a kilometer. Some screen shots from the apps [image: treesurvey_poc1]<https://thejeshgn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/treesurvey_poc1.png> [image: treesurvey_poc3]<https://thejeshgn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/treesurvey_poc3.png> [image: treesurvey_poc4]<https://thejeshgn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/treesurvey_poc4.png> [image: treesurvey_poc2]<https://thejeshgn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/treesurvey_poc2.png> Some issues that I faced 1. GPS logging is not very accurate. It has 4 to 8 meters of error, how do we fix it? 2. Roughly every tree takes 2 minutes, take a picture of tree, take a picture of leaves/fruits/flowers, geo tag. How long will it take for whole Bangalore. It has to be done by foot right? 3. Quality of pictures, depends on the time of day, camera quality, how big the tree is and patience Some ideas, learning and questions 1. ODC is easy to use, works really well, even offline 2. Crowd source: Can we crowd source this project? We can have mapping parties. People just need mobile (no internet) and time. Once they finish the survey, they can either come to the camp or go home to sync the data 3. We can use maps (gis) to assign the roads, areas to groups. Check the progress and coverage. This will help in organizing 4. Can we finish this in years time? What about delta after that? 5. What else can we do? 6. What kind of data do we collect live? For example Tree name can be figure later. Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Shree D N <shre...@oorvani.in> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Rudresh Kalyani* <rudreshkaly...@gmail.com> > Date: 6 March 2014 05:52 > Subject: {blrtreeproject} Tree Documentation-Bannerughatta road > To: bangaloretreeproj...@googlegroups.com > > > Hi All, > WCG(Wildlife Conservation Group) is organizing Tree documentation work on > coming weekend. Please find the further details below > > Agenda: > Documenting the trees of Bannerughatta road from Bannerughatta to Anekal > > Programme description: > Avenue trees have provided unconditional shade and shelter not only to > fauna and avi-fauna but even human beings from time immemorial. We have > depended on these old pillars of our Nature who've existed for centuries. > Today we might not need them because we have air-conditioned environments > inside cities, but they continue to give so much to the living world around. > > This is a unique invitation to members of our Natural society to > voluntarily contribute in understanding of the population and species of > these beautiful avenue trees in our neighborhood, in an area under-looked > by passing traffic and pollution; the trees need to be documented to make > ourselves realize that we indeed love and value them, and their presence > will not be forgotten. > > How do we document: > GPS point with species name and detail > photographs > birds and insect diversity > planning to do short film on Trees. > > Who can participate: > Students > Photographers > Tree Lovers > Environment enthusiasts & conservationists > Taxonomy experts > Birders > > Why we are documenting: > Its good to know our trees – they are our lifeline > Documentation will help to spread the love and value of trees to younger > generation. > Documentation will certainly help to preserve the existing trees > > Who we are: > Wildlife Conservation Group [WCG] > A small group of people interested in environmental conservation. > > When: > 8th and 9th of March 2014 . Documentation begins from Bannerugatta Circle . > Time :8AM to 12 PM > > Material you can bring: > Hat and water bottle > Meter tape 10-mt > Books on avenue trees > Bird book > Binocular > Camera > > Registration is free > > Contacts: > Subbu Badal <https://www.facebook.com/subbu.badal> : +91 9742786628 > Shankara Kp <https://www.facebook.com/shankara.kp> :+91 7760517769 > Ashwatha Kn <https://www.facebook.com/ashwatha.kn>: +91 9740919832 > Mail :wcg....@gmail.com > > Thansk, > Rudresh > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Bangalore Tree Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bangaloretreeproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bangaloretreeproject. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > On 14 January 2014 19:00, srinivas kodali <iota.kod...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Check if this open-source project from open-plans will help in data >> collection >> >> http://treekit.org/map/ >> >> https://github.com/openplans/treekit >> >> Regards, >> Srinivas >> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Sorry for top-posting, but on my phone. I agree that ODK makes sense for >>> this. As mentioned earlier, we already have a platform, Fieldata, with a >>> web interface, where the data collection part is built on top of ODK. We >>> can offer this both free of cost as well as without restrictions on >>> extracting the data. Also would be glad to help out in setting up the >>> forms. Please let me know. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gora >>> On Jan 10, 2014 4:12 PM, "Thejesh GN" <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have set up ODK at >>>> >>>> https://openbangalore.appspot.com >>>> >>>> Will try to map some tress on my street this weekend, I will keep you >>>> guys updated. >>>> >>>> >>>> Note: ODK seemed like the most easy and practical way to do it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thej >>>> -- >>>> Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >>>> http://thejeshgn.com >>>> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 5 January 2014 13:34, rajesh <sha...@gmail.com> 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 = gora+fossdo...@mimirtech.com/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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> -- >>> 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > ------- > Cheers, > > > *Shree | Associate Editor | Oorvani Media Pvt LtdPublications:* > citizenmatters.in | indiatogether.org > Bangalore | Tel: +91-80-4173 7584 | Mobile: +91-95909 35559 > Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/citizenmatters> | Follow us on > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/citizenmatters> > > -- > 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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