envirocloud: Data cloud of socio-ecosystem to rain the resilience

Dialogues in the cloud

Its word cloud

Projects on board
* Early warning system for villages about Elephant raid. Using crowd sourcing and Sensor web of microphone array.

* Tool for bird watching.

* Lending a voice for urban trees. Geocode based marking of urban trees and creating awareness to send the ecological observation in the tree.

What is it?

How was it made?

Challenges
Software development Georeferencing Awareness Participation Credibility of observation Sustainability

Intended outcome Future Development

Acknowledgement: We are thank full to Dr.P Balasubramanian, Dr.P.R.Arun,Dr.Shomita Mukherjee, Dr.P.Pramod, Dr.H.N.Kumara, Dr.P.Balakrishnan, Dr. K.S.Anoop Das, Mr.A.Sreenivasan, Ms. Sheeba Nanjan for their valuable suggestions rendered on the web application.

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Poster by Nishadh.K.A., M. K. Sebastian, Azeez.P.A. Slim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, India.

Earlier version of this poster was presented in Students Conference on Conservation Science 2011, Bangalore.