Environmental ServicesFireflower can be used for academic environmental studies at high schools and universities in diverse disciplines. It can also be used in long term commercial projects which track and monitor variations in local agriculture, biodiversity, climate, ecology, economy, fisheries, forestry, sociology and the health of communities related to natural or human induced changes. CapabilitiesFireflower can be used to search and mine data from inter-related subject areas. It can bring together, the whole spectrum of biological, geological, sociological and economic data related to a particular project for analysis. Fireflower has its own mapping system (GIS) and accepts global positioning (GPS) directly. Its telecommunications technology makes it ideal for collecting data from the field, giving broad band capability. Field data recorded at the source can be immediately transmitted to distant headquarters. Movements of members of a field team can be seen by their headquarters in real time wherever they are in the world. Networking with Fireflower brings field, laboratory and administration to life in real time. Case StudiesPrototypes of Fireflower have been used in a variety of environmental projects related to aquaculture, coastal conservation, disease distribution, land and water management, irrigation and water abstraction, impoundment of rivers, construction of canals and pipelines, surveys of inland fisheries, wetland agriculture, and railway safety. Examples of these prototypical studies are: |