This Week In Ag 0024 - What's Invasive
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What's Invasive, a mobile application locate invasive species by making geo-tagged observations and taking photos to alert us of the spread of habitat-destroying invasive plants and animals.
- As a smart phone application, what does What's Invasive do?
- How did What's Invasive idea come about?
- What led to the thought to create a mobile application?
- What is the problem trying to be solved?
- After some time there will a database of observations, photos, and geographic data. How can this information be used?
- What is next for What's Invasive?
- Technology: You developed software for Android and the iPhone is coming. Can you share some of the issues that came up during design and how you tackled them?
- Tool kits, help sites, design thoughts?
- What would you like to see happen with this type of crowd sourced data collection and tracking?
- How is What's Invasive related to Project BudBurst?
- What do the funding organizations (Microsoft and NSF) hope to see out of projects like What's Invasive?
- For those organizations thinking about developing a smart phone app, what would you tell them?
Resource links
- What's Invasive
- Project BudBusrt
- Participatory Sensing
- Agriculture Answering the Call of Smartphones
Where can we find you?
- Contact Eric Graham at egraham@cens.ucla.edu
- John Blue is on Twitter at @TruffleMedia
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