Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Mongabay
Nov 7, 2017, 11:32 pm291 pts
A pair of drones and the efforts of nearly 3,000 volunteers have helped scientists carry out a detailed study of the trees within a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) patch of the Amazon, in what the researchers are welcoming as a new paradigm of crowdsourced research. The Amazon Aerobotany project, part of a series of…

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