ExCiteS forest monitoring

PROJECT

Url:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps
Start date: 2012/02/01
End date: Still open

TEAM

Official team page:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps
Leader: Muki Haklay



Main location: University College London, London, UK

PROJECT DEFINITION

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Subject

Natural sciences > Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Software Engineering, GIScience (conservation)

Description

A mobile application which enables local communities to use a smartphone to compile and send a report on forest activity around their habitat.

Purpose.

Develop a system of participatory monitoring for forest management – specifically the social impact of logging

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ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Grey typology	Participation typology	Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: YES Sensing: YES Gaming: NO	Crowdsourcing ☐ Distributed intelligence ☐ Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐ Science outreach ☐	Data collection ☐ Data analysis ☐ Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
Genre:	Gaming elements:
Interface
Data type to manipulate: pictures, text, observations	interface enjoyment: cool/attractive Interface usability: easy to use	Member profiles::N/A Member profile elements:

ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

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Guidance	Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: SOMEWHAT Training sequence: SOMEWHAT Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT	individual performance: Somewhat collective performance: Somewhat research progress: Somewhat

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COMMUNITY

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Tools	News & Events
Communication: Social Network: N/A	Main news site: Frequency of project news updates: N/A Type of events: Frequency of events :
Community description
Community size (volounteers based): Role: Interaction form: Has official community manager(s): N/A Has team work N/A

Other information about community:
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION

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Intelligent Maps - Pygmies.jpg Yes [[has completion level::Low]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps

University College London, London, UK

Yes Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Software Engineering, GIScience Natural sciences conservation"conservation" is not in the list (nature/conservation, environment/climate, geography/urbanism, history/archeology, biology/medicine/neuroscience, physics, space, N/A, other) of allowed values for the "Has citizen science subject area" property. Develop a system of participatory monitoring for forest management – specifically the social impact of logging

Congo ExCiteS forest/poaching monitoring projects in the Congo Basin

data collection, data analysis, data interpretation

pictures, text, observations, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: yes Gaming: no

cool/attractive easy to use N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

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Low

Remarks

There is no official project title (except the global ExCiteS one)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

.Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin. Michalis Vitos, Jerome Lewis, Matthias Stevens, Muki Haklay (2013)

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1393554/

Stevens, M., Vitos, M., Lewis, J., & Haklay, M. (2013). Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin. GISRUK 2013, 21st GIS Research UK conference (April 2-5, 2013, Liverpool, England, UK).

Making local knowledge matter: supporting non-literate people to monitor poaching in Congo. Michalis Vitos, Jerome Lewis, Matthias Stevens, Muki Haklay

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2442882.2442884

BibTeX

Participatory Mapping in Congo-Brazzaville (Part 1). Michalis Vitos

https://uclexcites.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/participatory-mapping-in-congo-brazzaville-part-1/