Environment - Jane Goodall Institute and NASA chimpanzee habitat monitoring cooperation
2012, Jane Goodall Institute • (JGI) has announced a 85% protection chimpanzees and their habitats goals in the next 30 years. This is not an easy task, habitat loss rapid pace, forcing a sharp decline in the number of wild chimpanzees, almost extinct. 

JGI announced that the project will be implemented jointly with partners, to help monitor the chimpanzee habitat, so that people can design the most effective protection strategies. Project focus is on the development of a decision support system (DSS), the system is used in conjunction simulation, data collection, remote sensing systems, such as crowdsourcing field data to monitor the chimpanzee habitat environment. 

So far, no one system can systematically monitor a particular space in a coherent and wide range of biological variable data. But now, JGI can be obtained using the DSS number of chimpanzees in real time data, which will issue a warning to the current populations threatened by JGI, let JGI can implement the most effective protection plan to ensure the survival of chimpanzees. 

The project will also be included in the public packet data chimpanzee habitat nearby community residents collected. Through smart phones, tablet PCs, mobile mapping applications, and Google cloud computing technology, these community members can provide whether or how they affect wildlife in the area of human activity valuable information for JGI.

Source: Jane Goodall Institute

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