About this Project
Help us to locate invasive species by making geo-tagged observations and taking photos to alert us of the spread of habitat-destroying invasive plants and animals!
- Android Smart Phones. Individuals with GPS-enabled Android-based mobile phones can easily contribute to locating invasive species by making geo-tagged observations and taking photos to alert us of the spread of habitat-destroying plants.
- iPhone coming soon!
- Web. Log in and go to the My Data page to create a new observation from your computer.
We are:
- The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at the University of California, Los Angeles. We are developing freely available systems for enabling Citizen Science activities that preserve our natural environment and increase quality of life.
- Project team: Jameel Al-Aziz, Patrick Crutcher, Deborah Estrin, Eric Graham, Kyung Han, Cameron Ketcham, Olmo Maldonado, Jeff Mascia, Keith Mayoral, Nicolai Munk Petersen, Sasank Reddy, Eric Yuen
- The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The National Park Service is proud to be taking care of the national parks and helping Americans take care of their communities.
- Collaborators: Christy Brigham and Susan Teel.
- EDDMapS, developed by the University of Georgia - Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, is a web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species distribution.
- Collaborator: Chuck Bargeron, Technology Director
For some of our other projects, check out participatorysensing.org
This work is funded by:
- A Jim Gray Seed grant from Microsoft Research.
- A recent extension to the NSF-funded FIND (grant #CNS-0627084) to CENS for collaborating with Project BudBurst.
- Support by National Science Foundation (award #0120778) to the CENS.
