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DigitalGlobe has launched an environmental conservation campaign in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy to locate invasive plants or weeds growing in Hawaii’s native forests using its Tomnod crowdsourcing platform.
Beginning with high-resolution aerial photos of Kauai rainforests, users are expected to pinpoint weeds such as the Australian Tree Fern and African Tulip Tree to help the conservancy target its efforts to eliminate them, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday.
Locating these plants across 3,000 acres of rainforest is also intended to push back their spread in order to preserve the remaining 27 percent of forest as well as its ecosystem and to mitigate possible effects to local tourism and the economy.
According to DigitalGlobe, this Tomnod project is the first to support environmental conservation efforts after previous crowdsourcing projects supporting disaster response and recovery operations.
