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DPLUS051 Report
We are pleased to announce that we have completed the DEFRA funded DPLUS051 project report. The project has been a collaboration between Saint Helena Government, Connect Saint Helena (the islands utility company), the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Arctium. The project aims were to develop sub-catchment scale water [...]
Travelling to Saint Helena: End of an Era
Travelling to the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic has always been a joy and a challenge. Until February 2018 the Royal Mail Ship Saint Helena (RMS) plied the South Atlantic ocean between South Africa (Cape Town), Saint Helena and Ascension Island. Once a year the schedule [...]
The Darwin Plus Family on St Helena Island
The Arctium DPLUS051 project team had a great evening on St Helena island in November meeting all of the other Darwin Plus funded projects teams on St Helena island during November 2017. We met for a social event to swap stories, ideas and network. Teams from projects DPLUS029, DPLUS050, [...]
Conservation Drone Flying on Saint Helena Island
I had the privilege of sharing several days on St Helena with Mike Jervois and Lourens Malan from the Saint Helena National Trust and Environmental Management Division of Saint Helena Government flying drones in the Peaks National Conservation Area during November. We completed several flights within the conservation area [...]
Remote Sensing Using Drones
Remote sensing has become a tool of choice for site investigations, environmental monitoring and study area mapping in large, remote or inaccessible areas. The reduction in cost along with significant improvement in optics has made drones an attractive option for generating aerial imagery from which land use, plant density, [...]
