| ID: | 28805 |
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| Country: | Malaysia |
| Title: | Community Participatory Mapping on Indigenous Peoples’ Territories |
| Description: |
KUCHING: Rural communities are showing increasing interest in grassroots initiatives to develop maps of their territories. In partnership with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) and with funding support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the project is testing low cost aerial photography for community mapping, using digital cameras attached to tethered helium-filled balloons and radio-controlled model airplanes. “The resultant photographs are stitched together by computer to form an aerial view covering a wide area which is then geo-tagged with global positioning co-ordinates to form detailed maps. “Such maps can be used for a range of applications including land-use planning, claims for land rights, eco-tourism, development of agriculture, hydrology, animal migration plotting, indigenous knowledge inventories, environmental surveillance, documentation of climate change impacts, dispute resolution, road mapping, forest management and cataloguing of cultural sites. Low cost technologies and the skills to use them bring these applications within the reach of grassroots communities,” he said. Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/25/don-rural-folk-want-map-to-determine-land-ownership/#ixzz2fzVt6Vod |
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| Show more details: | Borneo Post Online |
| Copyright: | ©Borneo Post Online |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/25/don-rural-folk-want-map-to-determine-land-ownership/ |
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