Images
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 during 2005-2008
is to digitize the majority of these images
representing all programs
at BRIT.
Images
will be made available through several points of dissemination starting
in mid-2005. We will be publishing several thousand images of fresh and
herbarium (dried) plant collections made in Peru and the Osa Peninsula.
These images will be linked to their respective collections, specimens,
and taxa (species, genera, families) through a database-driven system
being developed and tested on the project.
We are
also investigating methods for uploading 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.