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Monitor Change: Fire Monitoring

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Crowd-sourced time lapse of fire recovery

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Inspired by the USGS’s Sam Droege (the man behind monitorchange.org), we have a couple projects to turn park visitors into a remote sensor network! It’s simple: Put up a sign asking people to set their cameras or phones in an angle bracket, take a photo, and post it with a hashtag to Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr. Then we harvest the photos and create timelapse views of change over time.

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Minimum Age: 13

Languages: English

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