Eric Fergaus is director of information systems at Conservation International's TEAM Network. He wrote an insightful piece last week for the Huffington Post about how new technologies are allowing ecologists to efficiently analyze the large amounts of data they are now collecting.
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"In today's globalized, technology-driven world, we are inundated with information on a daily basis. Faced with a deluge of data emanating from traditional news outlets, advertising and our social media networks, we must constantly sift through this mountain of data and evaluate which information is the most accurate, important and relevant to our lives.
Within the scientific community, things aren't much different. Technology has now enabled us to collect near real-time ecological information on scales ranging from a 1-hectare plot to an entire continent via space-, air- and ground-based sensors. Global, regional and national monitoring networks and observing systems can now use these technologies to capture information from more geographies and time periods than ever before."Read more...
