Wildlife, Livestock and Vegetation Inventory
Resource Management & Research (RMR) can carry out inventory and census of
animals, large tree species and timber using aerial observational and
photographic techniques, specially designed sampling procedures, combined, as
appropriate, with ground calibration or sub-stage sampling.
Leader in field inventory of wild animals and livestock
RMR has been a leader in the field of inventory of wild animals
and livestock for more than 40 years. Aerial strip sampling was
a method originally devised for the census of plains game in the
Serengeti-Mara region of Tanzania and Kenya. Other techniques
for counting animals such as crocodile and hippopotamus, and
nocturnal or forest species have since been developed.
Careful attention to symmetrical (sampling error) and unsymmetrical
(bias) errors
Large area surveys will be stratified by land system units,
catchments, administrative areas or habitats. The boundaries of
any of these polygons will be recorded during strip sampling to
allow an analysis of results, using GIS procedures, to present
results for each of the areal systems.
Developed innovative methodologies for vegetation
inventory
RMR has initiated similar innovations in the field of vegetation
inventory, using low- level photogrammetry to identify tropical
rain forest trees from their crown characteristics, and applying
crown-stem dimension relationships to estimate timber volumes of
valuable species.
Methodologies to estimate and monitor biomass, productivity, and carrying
capacity for all vegetation types
The Company has developed methodologies for biomass
estimations applicable to all types of vegetation from rain
forest to semi-arid grasslands. It has used multi-scaled
photography of the same location from 1:50 (ground based) to
1:5,000 scale (aircraft and tethered balloon) to record and
inventory vegetation for studies of productivity, carrying
capacity, rangeland condition and long term monitoring.
For more information contact:
info@rmruk.com
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