Building the BVI’s capacity to use photogrammetry for marine conservation
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus Local
VALUE £42,315
WHERE British Virgin Islands
Summary
This project will develop an enabling framework for environmental stakeholders to use Large Area Imaging (LAI) to support BVI coral monitoring through the acquisition of requisite equipment and photogrammetry software; hosting of field data collection and image-processing workshops; digitizing corals for at least three key sites; establishing data management systems and developing an online module to support future asynchronous training. This project will build capacity for using photogrammetry to evaluate ecosystem
shifts/changes and become an invaluable reference for other projects.
Status Current
Reference DPL00107
Round 4
Start 01/10/2024
End 31/03/2025
Project Partners
Ministry of Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration (MNRLI),
Government of the Virgin Islands (GoVI)