GPS Magazine: If you still don’t own a GPS unit, then you are truly a step behind. Tribes across the Amazon Basin have begun acquiring these portable navigation units and using them to map out their lands.
These tribes have begun mapping the 20 million acres of land that they traditionally charted by foot and canoe in order to avoid getting overran by developers, ranchers, loggers, miners, oilmen, and biopirates. Much of the help in this effort has come from the Amazon Conservation Team, a Virginia environmental and cultural preservation organization, which provided equipment, cartographic expertise, and financial assistance.
In addition to GPS mapping, tribes are also using Google Earth as a tool to track their territories. They have been using Google Earth’s satellite imagery to identify threats such as an encroaching soy farm or a river stained by the runoff from a gold mine. A few tribes in Brazil with Internet access are marking the coordinates of surreptitious activity they see in the images, then investigating on foot or passing the information to government enforcers.
If you need more proof that GPS is the wave of the future…look no further.
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GPS Tracking is a process which involves the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to locate a given object or person. With GPS tracking, logistic or local courier companies can tag the location of every vehicle in their fleet at any given time.
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The main benefit of GPS over other forms of tracking is its precision and accuracy. If you’ve ever lost stock to theft or felt out of the loop with your fleet’s movements, GPS might be something you should consider.
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