Grant: Engage Grants Program
University of Northern British Columbia
$24,553.00
Design, development, and testing of a mobile application software tool for tracking moose populations
FY 2014-15
Summary
Development of a moose tracking and inventory management system faces two key challenges: (1) Can crowdsourced data collection provide sufficient reliable data for wildlife biologists to help manage moosepopulations? (2) What kinds of strategies could be applied to crowd sourcing to improve the volume andvalue of the data collected? These two challenges must be successfully addressed in order to developan efficient moose tracking and inventory management system to be used in practice. To address the problemdescribed above, we propose to design and develop a mobile application software with necessaryfunctionalities. The proposed software will have a front-end application for the crowd to source data andaback-end server for data management and analytics. The front-end application must enable the users toactively participate and report the information about the moose spotted and recorded through their mobiledevice. The back-end must maintain consistent data of moose population, have capacity for scalablecommunication, and provide an analytic engine with various data-mining capabilities.
Program
Engage Grants Program
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
477522-2014
Name nom
Aravind, AlexAlagarsamy
Department département
Computer Science
Organization id
3
Institution établissement
University of Northern British Columbia
Province en
British Columbia
Province fr
Colombie-Britannique
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2014
Competition year année de concours
2014
Award amount
24553
Program id
EGP
Program name en
Engage Grants Program
Program name fr
Programme de subventions d'engagement partenariat
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1554
Committee name en
Pacific Internal Decision Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de décision interne pour le Pacifique
Area of application code
1002
Area of application group en
Northern development
Area of application group fr
Développement du nord
Area of application en
Environment
Area of application fr
Environnement
Research subject code
2720
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Computer systems software
Research subject fr
Logiciel de systèmes informatiques
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Design, development, and testing of a mobile application software tool for tracking moose populations
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Development of a moose tracking and inventory management system faces two key challenges: (1) Can crowdsourced data collection provide sufficient reliable data for wildlife biologists to help manage moosepopulations? (2) What kinds of strategies could be applied to crowd sourcing to improve the volume andvalue of the data collected? These two challenges must be successfully addressed in order to developan efficient moose tracking and inventory management system to be used in practice. To address the problemdescribed above, we propose to design and develop a mobile application software with necessaryfunctionalities. The proposed software will have a front-end application for the crowd to source data andaback-end server for data management and analytics. The front-end application must enable the users toactively participate and report the information about the moose spotted and recorded through their mobiledevice. The back-end must maintain consistent data of moose population, have capacity for scalablecommunication, and provide an analytic engine with various data-mining capabilities.
