Collecting Geospatial Data Offline: How Laterite Maps Land Boundaries with SurveyCTO and MBTiles

SurveyCTO empowers field teams and researchers in challenging environments to meet pressing needs and achieve impressive goals.

In this webinar, we’ll give you a firsthand look at how data, research and analytics firm Laterite used SurveyCTO to gather geospatial data for the Rainforest Alliance in the San Martin region of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

The Rainforest Alliance helps to protect the environment in some of the world’s most important areas. They attribute their success to ensuring that their programs amplify the voices of the people who call these landscapes home.

In their work on building thriving communities and healthy landscapes, the Rainforest Alliance partners with more than four million farmers and farmworkers, first communities, companies, governments, civil society partners, and millions of individuals to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.

In Peru, their work is centered around advancing sustainable growing methods for cocoa and coffee farmers to boost crop yields and the health of the land while diversifying local economies.

To operate this project, the Rainforest Alliance needed to accurately map farm boundaries, verify land classification, and ultimately ensure that their certified products were not coming from deforested or protected areas. This data needed to be gathered in remote regions of Peru without reliable internet connectivity.

To meet this challenge, the Rainforest Alliance engaged Laterite Peru to find a solution: Collecting geolocation data offline, using a combination of SurveyCTO and MBTiles.

Register for this webinar to see how Laterite Peru created the workflow for this project in SurveyCTO.

Presenters from Laterite will cover:

• What MBTiles are and the best practices for generating them
• How to load MBTiles basemaps into SurveyCTO to collect precise GPS polygons completely offline
• How Laterite used SurveyCTO to help them identify and validate collected data in real time
• And more!

If you gather data in remote areas, work in agriculture, use GPS in your data collection, or simply want to from expert researchers from Laterite, this webinar is for you!