[APWG] Nationwide weed survey, based on photos from GPS points?

[Craig Dremann]

Dear All,

Nation-wide megatransect weed survey, based on photos from GPS points?
---Using http://www.confluence.org as a model?

There's a project to photograph the confluence of every land-based 
latitude and longitude degree intersection in the world, and the photos
are clear enough to identify the plants --cultivated land, weeds, or
native wildlands plants.  

Since GPS equipment is cheap and fairly common, perhaps we could build
large-scale wildland weed monitoring grids, like for the 100-200 million
acres of the western BLM lands?

Perhaps BLM or USGS, with a grant from USDA or the EPA, could set up a
similar web-based monitoring project, where people could visit and
photograph the grid points, so that the vegetation and weeds at that
particular point, could be periodically photographed and monitored?

It could be an interesting land-monitoring and weed monitoring
treasure-hunt! Perhaps part of the grant, could be a reward for people
to visit each point, and returning with the photos?  

Sincerely,  Craig Dremann, Redwood City, CA (650) 325-7333