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The NGO uses UgCS to flight-plan drone mapping missions (from their office in Germany) of community reforestation areas in Malawi. The great thing about this is, that GPS-Polygons can be sent via messenger by Malawian STAFF working on the ground from the reforestation areas where the action is happening. Then missions can be planned with correct settings for needed flight altitude/GSD Resolution, camera settings, flight speed in the office. These missions are then transferred directly to the smartphone of Malawian drone pilots which makes it very easy for them to control the drone and they can in turn concentrate on the work of the community planters on the ground while relying on the planned missions. All photos and videos are then processed and evaluated while all data is presented on thepump & plantations map (click on Area of Interest Enyezini for example).

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‘We believe that transparency matters and that NGOs and charities should be held accountable for their work with donated money. UgCS enables us to do just that in an efficient way,’ Kevin Dalferth, CTO and Volunteer at Wells for Zoë, comments.

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As individual young seedlings or planting holes can be quite difficult to be visible in a photogrammetric map they are evaluated using ATLAS to detect, count, and keep track of survival rates. The NGO hopes that this will eliminate the necessity to send ground personnel to the areas multiple times a year to take exemplary photos of individual seedlings as planting proof.

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