The Kerala State Biodiversity Board has taken up many initiatives for afforestation in both Urban and Rural landscapes. Afforestation is a method of making those lands greener which has been abandoned and degraded agricultural lands or without forests for quite a time. On the occasion of World Environment Day celebrations on 5th of June 2021, the State Biodiversity Board has distributed saplings to common people through various NGO’s.
The mobile App “Ente Thai” has been developed for monitoring plant growth with realtime updations and various snapshots. This mobile app will provide a quick survey of plant distribution and health status with reasonable time and effort. The details of the sapling with its common Name, Species name, Quantity and Real time photographs with location data is captured. Monthly growth updation of the saplings are uploaded by the users and monitored by the department. Gallery of the saplings with monthly statistics is available in the app.
It’s an android application with location based services designed for collecting information on planted saplings. The mobile app provides server side components for uploading data and a web based interface for managing and analyzing data. The backend is developed on PHP with Slim framework and Database Management System is PostgresSQL. The access of the mobile app is restricted by the administrators through Mobile numbers.