One
of the major activities of the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program is
botanical and nature imaging. All scientists and students on the
project carefully document their research and discoveries using digital
photography and scanning technologies. The project has over 25,000
images in their digital image stock, and even more in slide and print
format. BRIT has more than 200,000 stock images in the institutional
archives. One of the main goals of BRIT and the AABP was to digitize the majority of these images representing all programs
at BRIT.
We have published several thousand images of fresh and
herbarium (dried) plant collections made in Peru through Atrium, the Biodiversity Information System.
Atrium is a database-driven system that links these images to their respective collections, specimens,
and taxa (species, genera, families).
We are also
investigating and developing a field database that allows researchers to upload images from remote locations in the
Andes-Amazon region so that research teams can feed the online database
system as rapidly as possible to decrease the distance between
discovery and documentation.
With our rich image
stock collection at BRIT and through the AABP we offer use of our
images for non-profit and commercial purposes.
Contact Keri McNew (kmcnew@brit.org) for more information.