Getting Started With Remote Monitoring

It’s a brave new world of stewardship technology, but it can be daunting to figure out whether remote monitoring is right for your land trust and where to start. The Land Trust Alliance created this toolkit to provide you with the information you and your team need to make the right decisions.

Before developing a remote monitoring program, a land trust needs to weigh the benefits and the drawbacks of this type of stewardship. This pointer offers considerations to help with that analysis.

The Land Trust Alliance has assembled this toolkit to assist you in advocating in support of 30x30. With your help, we can achieve this worthy goal and advance long-held conservation priorities for our community.

This report details the results of a series of interviews, focus groups and surveys that tracked the experiences of the 12 land trusts in the Keep It Colorado grantee cohort as they acquired and implemented new remote monitoring technologies during the 2020 monitoring season.

For nearly two decades, The Nature Conservancy's California chapter has explored the use of remote sensing to meet annual property monitoring requirements. This paper provides key information learned in the exploration of remote property monitoring.

TNC-CA worked with Nancy Thomas of Geospatial Innovation Facility at University of California Berkeley to survey land trusts using remote monitoring to gauge interest and ideal scenarios and published the results.