CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS: SMART (SPATIAL MONITORING AND REPORTING TOOL)
How we use SMART
SMART is used at more than 1,100 sites in over 95 countries to support a broad range of conservation management activities, including biodiversity conservation, law enforcement, tourism and visitor management, natural resources use, intelligence, and performance and threat level assessments.
SMART can be customised to suit specific needs and contexts. Whether in terrestrial or marine environments, at connected or disconnected sites, SMART enables users to monitor and evaluate conservation efforts in order to improve conservation management.
By providing rapid access to accurate data and analysis, SMART helps managers and frontline workers minimize threats to wildlife and conservation areas.
SMART is used at more than 1,100 sites in over 95 countries to support a broad range of conservation management activities, including biodiversity conservation, law enforcement, tourism and visitor management, natural resources use, intelligence, and performance and threat level assessments.
SMART can be customised to suit specific needs and contexts. Whether in terrestrial or marine environments, at connected or disconnected sites, SMART enables users to monitor and evaluate conservation efforts in order to improve conservation management.
By providing rapid access to accurate data and analysis, SMART helps managers and frontline workers minimize threats to wildlife and conservation areas.
With SMART Survey, you can:
• Organize, map, and summarize ecological data and easily export for external analysis
• Compile ecological and patrol data from your site(s) to create a holistic protected area management strategy
– Fishermen reporting catch or illegal fishing
– Citizen science in and around Conservation Areas
– Reporting human-wildlife conflict in a village
– Tracking of small-scale fishing boat
– Reporting wildlife crime
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- recording sightings and developing a profile of individual animals
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- tracking the traffic patterns through park entry points
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- recording the details of outreach projects in neighbouring communities
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- maintaining records of staff participation in training events
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- managing the maintenance schedules for equipment and infrastructure
- tracking incidences of human- wildlife conflict around protected areas.
SMART Profiles allow for the management of information on entities and their interrelationships in fluid circumstances, where reality, and our understanding of it evolve.
Author: Editor
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