ForestWatchers Lets Anyone Monitor A Patch of Forest

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:43PM from the first-one-to-spot-sasquatch-wins dept.

teleyinex writes "ForestWatchers.net is a citizen project with the goal of making it possible for anyone (locals, volunteers, NGOs, governments, etc), anywhere in the world, to monitor selected patches of forest across the globe, almost in real-time, using a computer connected to the Internet. The project has recently released a first alpha web application (built using the open source crowdsourcing PyBossa framework) where volunteers can participate by classifying satellite images of one area of the Amazon basin."

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Gateway theory? by Keruo · 2012-09-30 21:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Is this like gateway theory, where at first you were just watching the grass grow and now you advanced to trees?

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Oh well by RivenAleem · 2012-09-30 21:23 · Score: 4, Funny

That puts an end to silent falling