Composite Landscape Assessment & Restoration Tool

Composite Landscape Assessment and Restoration Tools (CLART), is a Geographic Information System (GIS) based Android tool –developed to enhance the planning of region-specific soil and water conservation measures. CLART enables rural communities in designing measures that would either help recharge of ground water or augment surface water availability, depending upon the location specific geo-hydrological characteristics. Made available in a user friendly manner for semi-literate village communities, it enables them to undertake major part of the planning and designing, thereby assisting the local government functionaries in speeding the process of approvals, as well as improving the efficacy of ground level implementation.

Salient features

• Provides location specific information, thus improving planning and decision-making by 70-80%.
• User-friendly, open-source tool installed on Android devices.
• Works offline with devices’ inbuilt GPS pinpointing the exact location on the map. The colour codes further suggest possible activities.
• Collects, saves evidence offline (photograph, lat/long and a set of questions), that can be synchronized to the web portal, once the device connects to the web.

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