New technologies in environmental science: Phenology observations with the kiwi remote instrumentation platform

Abstract

Advances in e-learning create a base for creative use of new technologies in virtually any field of science. Whether or not this results in improvements in the quality of education is mostly up to the attractiveness of the final solution. This chapter describes a possible way of increasing the attractiveness of learning tutorials by the Kiwi remote instrumentation platform with the main concern on environmental science domains like phenology, meteorology, water circulation and its chemistry or, finally, air pollution. This chapter is focussed on the technical aspects of conducting phenology observations with a remotely controlled DSLR camera managed by the Kiwi platform.