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Field setup to collect data on butterflies and moths in the restricted Aripo Savannahs in March 2015.
Picture just for record/documentation purposes.
These poor quality Data Charts are loaded with Reporting And Recording System Artifacts.
The plots are of date and time of processing and recording. They are not the dates and times of death. There is a big difference. If system artifacts such as no data being processed on Sundays were corrected, we might not need seven-day averaging plots.
The CDC and/or the NY Times should be doing data recording and processing system artifact removal.
I could teach them how to do it. Perhaps I should submit a proposal for a contract to do the work.
The Grand River, Ada Twp. Trail, Ada, Michigan USA
A pipe runs off the back of this box, down along the bridge column into the river. Solar powered and with what appears to be an antennae for data transmission.
Data from this system is available online here.
Sri Wahyuni is a chemical analyst in Lahendong Geothermal Plant. Lahendong Geothermal Plant provides clean and sustainable energy to the residents of Manado, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.
Project Result:
Harnessing the Earth's Power to Light Cities
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Florida reef fish anglers have requested that the FWC create a system to improve reef fish recreational data collection so that data are more accurate, precise, timely and more in-line with what is happening on the water. By participating in the Gulf Reef Fish Survey, anglers are improving recreational data for several reef fish species such as red snapper and gag grouper (pictured). The process is easy and no-cost and will help the FWC paint a clearer picture of how many people are targeting Gulf reef fish like red snapper and gag and what they are seeing and harvesting. This Flickr set includes photos of all the reef fish species that are being targeted during this survey.
ported the tweetawatt xbee datacollection and reporting code to wifi router. with a 16m usb key i had enough space for python and some libraries so it was a 1-day-hack!i
tried to clean up the background. then gave up.
now i dont need to keep a computer on to do the data logging, its all done in the background by my wifi router. power usage is now 5W and has 'paid for itself'. i hope all routers come with zigbee soon, would be great for data collection & home automation. thanks asus!
My thesis research involves collecting information about the PhD degrees of I-Schools' faculty. This data mining is quite time-consuming; Georgia Tech has 80 faculty that meet my sampling criteria, UCLA had 66, and that's two out of nineteen. Not all schools have the same quantity or quality of information about their faculty's educational pedigree available online so in some cases the additional information, such as year of PhD and department granting the degree, are found in the UMI Dissertation Abstracts database, but there are still some blanks to fill in. Everything here was collected by hand from public sources under IRB exemption.
Before the advent of the Internet, this information would have been collected by survey or through a published directory for an academic field (nonexistant for this community). Biases in web-collected data of this nature exist, but are a lesser evil compared to the biases of other methods that are subject to problems with response rate and/or significant time lag to publication.
In GSP 330, the students learn to measure elevation at the Ma-le'l Dunes just 4.5 miles from campus.
Collecting larval fish and plankton from a beach seine near Point Barrow, Alaska.
(Original photo source and more information: NOAA Office of Response and Restoration )
In GSP 330, the students learn to measure elevation at the Ma-le'l Dunes just 4.5 miles from campus.
The police car with lights blinking was parked about 50 m to the north of a group of maybe 25 or 30 people, including a few speaking out against the pending bill in Tokyo to give the central government wide ranging powers to look for signs of agitation or terrorism threats. Local residents spoke up against the new national law permitting surveillance on residents/citizens, reminiscent of the digital information dragnet that EJSnowden warned about in USA. The upcoming law's name differs from that of the pre-WWII social order act that allowed outspoken members of the public and political parties like the communists to be repressed, imprisoned, or worse. But in the age of Internet, and with the use of possibly US-supplied methods of collecting digital voice and data communications to sort for elements or indicators of concern, it is not hard to imagine the ease of abusing this all sweeping power for presumptive arrest.
There are few today who know the 1930s personally, and not so many who are serious students of the abuses of that era. Ignorance of surveillance is very widespread. But at least a handful of people are standing up and speaking out while their right of assembly and freedom of speech is still alive. The occasional critical thinker or counter-culture person may opt to live increasingly off the grid and away from mass communications, despite the loss of convenience. Instead of computer and smartphone, they will have to use face to face meetings and payphones, perhaps.
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First Digital Aerial Sketch Mapping (DASM) system components: Laptops, power board, and KDS unit - with a back-up paper map in case of system failure. Wooden rack built by Keith Sprengel. Due to excessive aircraft vibration, foam was later added under laptops.
Excerpt from Forest Insect and Disease Highlights in Oregon, 2001, located here: www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/docs/fhh/OR_FHH_2001.pdf
"In 2001, we implemented a digitally assisted sketchmapping system in much of western Oregon. Observers now record damage locations on a touch-sensitive computer screen displaying the airplane’s current position on user-defined electronic background maps. This system utilizes real-time global positioning and eliminates problems associated with observer disorientation."
Note: The transition from collecting data on paper maps to digital data collection with DASM happened over the course of several years of testing. The first year for 100% DASM data collection in Oregon and Washington was 2003.
Photo by: Keith Sprengel
Date: 2001
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Aerial Survey Program collection.
For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
For related historic program documentation see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Monitoring operations in Lahendong Geothermal Plant. Lahendong Geothermal Plant provides clean and sustainable energy to the residents of Manado, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.
Project Result:
Harnessing the Earth's Power to Light Cities
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Staff in charge of the facility in Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Town Electrification Investment Program is helping build renewable energy facilities to meet critical electricity supply gaps in six provincial urban centers in Papua New Guinea.
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Regular, year-round data collection is the foundation for food security analysis and informed decision-making. Through the SaFANIS project, FAO works with partners to collect crucial information on food production, availability, market prices, nutrition, etc. Data is collected from randomly identified “cluster” sites, in which 12 households will also be randomly selected for interviewing.
Read more about FAO and the crisis in South Sudan.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/South Sudan. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
Staff of the Nauru Utilities Corporation (NUC) at work.
The Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project intends to increase the reliability and sustainability of power generation in Nauru.
The Institutional Strengthening of the Nauru Utilities Corporation (NUC) supports the management and governance of the organization.
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Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability
Institutional Strengthening of the Nauru Utilities Corporation
Wang Shilin is checking the power generation operation.
Video: Manure is Money in the People’s Republic of China
Project Result: In the People’s Republic of China, Manure is Being Turned into Money
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Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
Wang Shilin is checking the power generation operation.
Video: Manure is Money in the People’s Republic of China
Project Result: In the People’s Republic of China, Manure is Being Turned into Money
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Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
Entomologist Rob Flowers (ODF) assisting with data collection. Long-term mountain pine beetle thinning study. California Gulch study area, Oregon.
For more see Silvicultural and Direct Control of Mountain Pine Beetle in Second-Growth Ponderosa Pine here: nfsl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17053coll1/id...
Photo by: Beth Willhite
Date: September 12, 2007
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center
Source: Beth Willhite collection; Sandy, Oregon.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Staff of the Nauru Utilities Corporation (NUC) at work.
The Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project intends to increase the reliability and sustainability of power generation in Nauru.
The Institutional Strengthening of the Nauru Utilities Corporation (NUC) supports the management and governance of the organization.
Read more on:
Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability
Institutional Strengthening of the Nauru Utilities Corporation
Operator Gul Zaman Khan taking readings from inverter panels at the project site in Pira Kalwal and Wadgal Village, Joharabad, Khushab District, Pakistan on Wednesday, 30 May 2018. The hybrid solar-wind project is the only source of electricity in the area and provides residents better living standards and convenience.
The Solar Photovoltaic–Small-Wind Hybrid Power System Subproject is part of the Effective Deployment of Distributed Small Wind Power Systems Project that supports multiple development purposes in remote windy rural areas.
Photo: Nasr ur Rahman
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Effective Deployment of Distributed Small Wind Power Systems
Surveyor at the site of the 131 km Uzbekistan-Kazakstan road funded under the ADB's Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) regional road project.
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Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program
Alaska Peninsula/Becharof National Wildlife Refuges
USFWS Refuge Biologist Dom Watts and Alaska Department of Fish and Game Biologist Lem Butler collecting data from a tranquilized wolf on the Alaska Peninsula.
Journalists from South Asian countries, ADB officials and Water Management authorities visit the Pateswari regulator in Pateswari, Narail. The Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project is providing assistance to eatablish water management organizations, rehabilitate water retention structures and flood embankments, and re-excavate clogged drainage and irrigation canals.
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Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management
Surveyor at the site of the 131 km Uzbekistan-Kazakstan road funded under the ADB's Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) regional road project.
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Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program
Representative reads the water meter at a neighborhood in Kutaisi, Georgia. The Urban Services Improvement Investment Program will upgrade the water and sanitation services in the town.
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Recording insect and disease damage using the new Digital Mobile Sketch Map (DMSM) system. 2018 is the first year the system's used for forest health data collection in Oregon and Washington.
Note: "DMSM is tablet hardware, software, and back end data support processes (ArcGIS Desktop Tools) that allow trained aerial surveyors, in light aircraft, and ground observers to record forest disturbances and their causal agents. DMSM replaces the legacy Digital Aerial Sketch Mapping (DASM) and will greatly enhance the quality and quantity of forest health data while improving safety by integrating with programs such as operational remote sensing (ORS) which uses satellite imagery to monitor disturbances." For more about DMSM see: www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/applied-sciences/mapping-repor...
For more about the Region 6 aerial survey program see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
Photo by: Justin Hof
Date: June 26, 2018
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Aerial Survey Program collection.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Alaska Peninsula/Becharof National Wildlife Refuges
USFWS Refuge Biologist Dom Watts and Alaska Department of Fish and Game Biologist Lem Butler collecting data from a tranquilized wolf on the Alaska Peninsula.
During a handover ceremony, USAID/Ghana Mission Director Andrew Karas (left) presents Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan (right) with a sample of ICT equipment that will be used to strengthen the Ministry’s agriculture data collection efforts. Photo credit: Priscilla Addison, USAID/Ghana.
USAID donated tablets, electronic equipment and software to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s Statistical Department to improve agricultural data collection on September 8. USAID works in partnership with the Ministry through Feed the Future. One hundred and fifty Ministry officials will be trained to collect data. In turn this activity will help inform more effective agribusiness policies aimed to improve the livelihoods of farmers. Expected Development Result(s): Improved food security and increased incomes The scoop: vibeghana.com/2016/09/09/usaid-donates-it-equipment-for-a...
Once the female has made her way back to the nest and is resting comfortably on it, the line is pulled. This releases the trigger and snaps the bowtrap over the female. Here a Pacific Black Brant has been captured using the bow-trap technique.
USFWS Yukon Delta NWR
Photo Credit: Melissa Gabrielson
Data loggers are one way to collect information on changes in water level, salinity, temperature, etc. in different water bodies (lakes, ponds, sloughs, rivers). These types of tools are important in studying hydrology of different ecosystems. Information gathered from data loggers can be used to document changes that are occurring and, through modeling, project future changes that may occur.
These data loggers are being installed in the coastal zone to document tidal, seasonal, and yearly changes in hydrology on Kigigak Island.
USFWS Yukon Delta NWR
Photo Credit: Melissa Gabrielson
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Wooden rack built by Mike McWilliams holding power boards and laptop computers components of the first Digital Aerial Sketch Mapping (DASM) system used in Region 6 functionally. Two systems allow two aerial observers digitize data simultaneously - each looking out one side of the airplane. The KDS touchscreen components are sitting on the table.
Photo by: Keith Sprengel
Date: circa 2002
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Aerial Survey Program collection.
Note: The transition from collecting data on paper maps to digital data collection with DASM happened over the course of several years of testing. The first year for 100% DASM data collection in Oregon and Washington was 2003.
For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
For related historic program documentation see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth