Woodfuel Collection Tracker

Woodfuel Collection Tracker was designed to integrate data from Columbus V990 GPS trackers With semi-structured field surveys to quantify the time effort and places visited by Peasants in collecting firewood across the landscape.

People need to carry the GPS unit They go wherever During Their daily activities, for a period Determined by the local conditions and the research question.

Every 3 to 5 days, tracks recorded by Columbus V990 GPS trackers are loaded into a widescreen tablet and display over to google maps satellite image.

A concise multiple-choice interview to Recognize what is Conducted the person wearing the GPS unit was doing at various times and places along the recorded track. Places Where people did some work (e.g. Collected firewood, graze, work in the crops) are saved as polygons drawn over the screen by the interviewer.

Depending on internet connectivity, data is saved into the tablet or send to the cloud to be Analyzed remotely in almost real time.

Spatial and temporal descriptive statistics and people's tracks Regarding activities are Calculated automatically.

Please email comments and suggestions to [email protected]

version 1.0

Developer: Roberto Heras Rangel

Special thanks

Adrián Ghilardi, Rob Bailis, Tupalishe Ghambi.

LANASE, UNAM & SEI