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GPS checklist –before a field trip Before a field trip • Familiarize yourself and practice with your GPS receiver • Charged batteries + spares • Check what maps are available, e.g. of logging concessions, community lands or protected areas. Get copies of these if possible to plan your trip. Check some of the key locations on these maps against coordinates you collect on the ground. • Make sure you have video and photography equipment if these will be needed to prove any claims you make using GPS. • Input any key navigational landmarks into the GPs from available maps (enter them as waypoints), to assist with navigation in the field. • Check your GPS settings, and that your GPS is not on simulator mode! Forests Monitor ‐ Using GPS
GPS checklist – during a field trip • If you cannot get a signal, make sure there is nothing preventing this, such as tree canopy, buildings, etc. If you need to move away form your chosen location to get a signal, measure and write down how far away you have moved, and in which direction (using the digital compass in the GPS). This information can then be used to correct the coordinates you received • Get photographic evidence of important waypoints you make to prove what you have seen is actually where you say it is, and ALSO write down in a notebook comments about waypoints and routes (nature, place) to avoid confusion later on • Leave GPS receiver on vehicle dash‐board, or near a window if traveling by car while recording your Route. • Record waypoint at important locations, and write down relevant information relating to them. • If you get into trouble or have an accident, try and send your GPS position to colleagues so they can find you more easily. Forests Monitor ‐ Using GPS
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