Remote Monitoring: Practices, Limitations and Use in Legal Defense

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.

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.

Monitoring from the air can be a great solution for land trusts who are struggling with COVID restrictions or who need to monitor large numbers of properties. Learn how to get a program started and get tips for successful remote monitoring programs.

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.

In September 2020, Ethan Inlander and Scott Hardage published their recommended practices according to Land Trust Alliance Guidance

This is a sample annual stewardship monitoring report from the accredited Weeks Bay Foundation.

Join us to learn more about the Land Trust Alliance’s new online toolkit that will help land trust practitioners learn about and understand how remote sensing technology can benefit the land trust community.

A sample monitoring report, including annual monitoring objectives, general information, monitoring checklist, map, photos, verification and confirmation by both landowner and monitor from the accredited California Rangeland Trust.