Second RESTORE+ crowdsourcing campaign launched
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Since the launch of the first RESTORE+ crowdsourcing campaign in April this year,
hundreds of students in South Sumatra and East Kalimantan supported forest restoration through the data collection platform Urundata. During the campaign’s official closure events, first results were presented and the second round of crowdsourcing was formally launched. |
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Students of 14 local universities in South Sumatra and East Kalimantan have assisted efforts to restore forests and landscapes through the first round of the Urundata land cover analysis in both regions. Efforts to restore forests and landscapes are part of green growth strategies implemented through regulations by the provincial governments.
During the two events to conclude first round crowdsourcing campaign as well as launching the second round crowdsourcing campaign in South Sumatra and East Kalimantan, local project partners from ICRAF, WRI and WWF Indonesia elaborated how the Urundata mobile application - the nationally-owned crowdsourcing platform developed as part of RESTORE+ activities- connects learnings gained from site-level restoration activities with scientific data. The information obtained from Urundata will be used to inform various restoration policy scenarios that consider cross-sectoral impacts such as welfare of local communities, economic development, food security, energy supply and biodiversity protection.
“The results of the data collection from hundreds of students have been used to produce land cover maps with an innovative method based on algorithms" explained Hidayah Hamzah from WRI Indonesia. IIASA Research Scholar Hadi presented these maps which could provide relatively more objective results compared to maps only based on remote sensing. Maps using this innovative method also have a relatively higher level of accuracy (67%) than maps using conventional methods (65%). In the activities carried out since April this year, the participating students were asked to compare satellite imagery with observable landscapes in the field, carried out through the Urundata application on their mobile phones. The results of their comparative interpretations are expected to reduce the subjectivity of data interpretation which is usually done by only a few people. "We compared the results of the data collection of thousands of students with a map of land cover conducted by partnering experts at ICRAF. Apparently the results are not very different. The interpretation results from the students can also be used by the expert mapping community. This means that producing maps with the help of non-experts through the data collection method is quite promising" said Hadi.
Additionally, the instructions to land cover and interpretation of satellite imagery given by the Urundata team at the beginning of the campaign at the participating Universities, positively contributed to the students' knowledge of land cover, mapping and forest recovery. In East Kalimantan, 77% of the users’ satellite imagery interpretation matched with the experts’ interpretations. Rector of the IBA University in South Sumatra, Dr. Karlin Agustina, reported how many students have felt the positive impact of their contribution: "Students learn to understand and interpret the land cover images. In fact, not all students learn about mapping and forest recovery in their lectures, and with this activity they additionally make a positive contribution to forest and landscape recovery efforts."
During the events which were widely received by the media (for more details see below), the winners of the first crowdsourcing round in both regions were announced. The winners who collected most data, will get an internship opportunity at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Indonesia.
Complete information (in Indonesian) about the Urundata application can be found at urundata.id.
The Urundata application is available for free on the Google Play Store and can be downloaded via the http://bit.ly/unduh-urundata link.
For more background information also see RESTORE+ website article “Launch of crowdsourcing campaign Urundata”
Media coverage:
During the two events to conclude first round crowdsourcing campaign as well as launching the second round crowdsourcing campaign in South Sumatra and East Kalimantan, local project partners from ICRAF, WRI and WWF Indonesia elaborated how the Urundata mobile application - the nationally-owned crowdsourcing platform developed as part of RESTORE+ activities- connects learnings gained from site-level restoration activities with scientific data. The information obtained from Urundata will be used to inform various restoration policy scenarios that consider cross-sectoral impacts such as welfare of local communities, economic development, food security, energy supply and biodiversity protection.
“The results of the data collection from hundreds of students have been used to produce land cover maps with an innovative method based on algorithms" explained Hidayah Hamzah from WRI Indonesia. IIASA Research Scholar Hadi presented these maps which could provide relatively more objective results compared to maps only based on remote sensing. Maps using this innovative method also have a relatively higher level of accuracy (67%) than maps using conventional methods (65%). In the activities carried out since April this year, the participating students were asked to compare satellite imagery with observable landscapes in the field, carried out through the Urundata application on their mobile phones. The results of their comparative interpretations are expected to reduce the subjectivity of data interpretation which is usually done by only a few people. "We compared the results of the data collection of thousands of students with a map of land cover conducted by partnering experts at ICRAF. Apparently the results are not very different. The interpretation results from the students can also be used by the expert mapping community. This means that producing maps with the help of non-experts through the data collection method is quite promising" said Hadi.
Additionally, the instructions to land cover and interpretation of satellite imagery given by the Urundata team at the beginning of the campaign at the participating Universities, positively contributed to the students' knowledge of land cover, mapping and forest recovery. In East Kalimantan, 77% of the users’ satellite imagery interpretation matched with the experts’ interpretations. Rector of the IBA University in South Sumatra, Dr. Karlin Agustina, reported how many students have felt the positive impact of their contribution: "Students learn to understand and interpret the land cover images. In fact, not all students learn about mapping and forest recovery in their lectures, and with this activity they additionally make a positive contribution to forest and landscape recovery efforts."
During the events which were widely received by the media (for more details see below), the winners of the first crowdsourcing round in both regions were announced. The winners who collected most data, will get an internship opportunity at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Indonesia.
Complete information (in Indonesian) about the Urundata application can be found at urundata.id.
The Urundata application is available for free on the Google Play Store and can be downloaded via the http://bit.ly/unduh-urundata link.
For more background information also see RESTORE+ website article “Launch of crowdsourcing campaign Urundata”
Media coverage:
- https://riau.antaranews.com/berita/127456/index.html
- https://koranindonesia.id/lewat-telepon-seluler-mahasiswa-di-sumsel-bantu-restorasi-hutan-melalui-urunan-data/
- https://www.swarnanews.co.id/2019/08/29/memiliki-hutan-sangat-luas-sumsel-menjadi-percontohan-restorasi-bentang-alam/
- https://elshinta.com/news/186000/2019/08/28/ratusan-mahasiswa-sumsel-dukung-restorasi-hutan-melalui-urutan-data
- https://kaltim.tribunnews.com/2019/09/05/mengenal-aplikasi-urundata-di-samarinda-berguna-dalam-pemulihan-hutan-dan-bentang-alam
- http://rri.co.id/samarinda/post/berita/717132/sosial_dan_budaya/ratusan_mahasiswa_menjadikan_aplikasi_sebagai_alat_pendukung_restorasi_hutan.html
- http://968kpfm.co.id/berita/metropolis/urundata-aplikasi-pendukung-restorasi-hutan
