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Re: Burn Study

Austin-
  Unfortunately, our GPS is only accurate to 100m on a good day
(no kidding).  Would love to have such sophisticated equiptment but unless it
involves actual maneuvers or complience issues they are very stingy
with this kind of equiptment.  Even if we could get a hold of it, our base
station can't handle it.  It sure would be nice though.  Until then, we are
stuck doing things the old fashioned way.
Thanks anyway,   Caron

Austin Moseley wrote:

Have you thought of using GPS systems instead of transects? GPS is
accurate to .01 cm or less for lat/long and a bit less for altitude.And
requires little time to set up. You can then measure  each individual plant
rather quickly. Some GPS have data storagecapabilitiesas well, or you can rig
it up with a laptop, then you can cover a lot ofground quickly. As a futher
refinement, add a digital camera which feeds into the laptop to take photos of
each plant, then put all thisin your database. All this can give you a lot
more data of higher quality that can be sampled, recorded, and studied in a
faster time with better accuracy. The Army should have GPS systems you can
use, or they can spring for a quality commercial system with data interface
into a laptop and the digital camera setup. You can put an Oracle 8 database
on a Windows NT laptop which will store and correlate all kinds of data
including spatial and image data. You can then export this data to a main
storage system.

> I work with this stuff every day and it is very doable.
>
> -Austin Moseley
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