17 August 2018

Counting tigers on smartphones

Forest officials conduct a training exercise in M-STrIPES.

Abstract: "India’s 2018 national tiger estimation will use an Android-based mobile application to streamline collection of field data on tigers and prey, add photos and GPS coordinates, record poaching and human-wildlife conflict, and reduce error in data entry. The M-STrIPES app uploads field data automatically to a remote central server for rapid analysis or stores the data on the user’s mobile phone until internet access is available. The app has been tested successfully in a few tiger reserves, made more user friendly, and is now being rolled out on a national scale, but can it help resolve discrepancies in survey results?"

Read More: https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2017/12/counting-tigers-on-smartphones/



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