Citation

Azmi, N.; Razali, M.H.; Kamaruddin, L.M.; Harun, A.; Rahim, N.A.; Zakaria, A.; Shakaff, A.Y.M. (2015). Multi-disciplinary approach for forest health monitoring. International Conference on Multidisiplinary Research and Innovation for Globally Sustainable Development.

Abstract

Recent occurrence of unfortunate series of events such as flash flood, landslides and unprecedented warmer temperature raised concerns and drove actions towards preventing the occurrence of such events. Biodiversity monitoring is one of the alternative solutions which is a long term effort that provide useful information to allow early prevention of unfortunate events as a result of illegal logging activities, deforestation, forest fire etc. The existing biodiversity monitoring are manually conducted which rely on human resource and as such introduced several challenges and limitations. Therefore, the development of an efficient, real-time biodiversity monitoring system is needed. This paper discussed the challenges and successful implementation of wireless biodiversity monitoring system which encompasses knowledge and expertise from multi-disciplinary field such as environmental, biology, electronics and network engineering. This paper also provided information on sensors and wireless networks utilized in this monitoring system. With the availability of this biodiversity monitoring system, the status of the forest health can be identified on real- time basis hence early precaution and prevention can be undertaken to prevent the catastrophic events.