Tobago P3DM - The missing islet
SCARBOROUGH, 7 October, 2012. A lot of positive developments today. Successive groups of residents kept noting two missing islets (Goat Island and Little Tobago) and pointed out that Little Tobago is a bird reserve.
Adam, one of the workshop participants who used to work at UWI rose to the challenge of preparing the needed contour map far from his GIS lab and using a locally available ink-jet printer to plot the islets out. Kail provided him with the SRTM data and Sarah, one of the UWI graduate students helped Adam obtain the bathymetry. And … magic …by the end the day, Little Tobago and other missing islets were placed onto the model and smoothed with crepe paper.
Knowledge holders add value to the 3D model of Tobago
Historical and cultural knowledge emerges along with awareness on environmental change
SCARBOROUGH, 06 October, 2012. Excitement is growing as the blank 3D model is populated with data. What is astonishing is that nobody uses satellite images or existing maps where to source information. All data comes from memory, and one added piece of information offers new cues to memory, hence everybody is discovering and learning by doing.
Day by day, more information is added to the once blank model. The second group of informants arrives to transpose their information. And still, members from the first group of informants are returning to the workshop because, according to them, they went off, did some research and have returned to “add more value to the model”.
Blank 3D model of Tobago accommodates first set of community inputs
Informants express pleasure at being part of exercise
SCARBOROUGH, 04 October 2012. Bubbling with excitement, informants who came from far and wide to help fill in the blank model of the P3DM of Tobago could barely contain themselves as they realize the importance of their knowledge.
The room is buzzing with activity as the informants locate features on the map. Four groups of trainee facilitators accompany Tobago residents in transferring their mental maps on the 3D model under the watchful eye of facilitators from the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), GIS expert Kail Zingapan from the Philippines and Kenn Mondiai of Partners with Melanesians (PwM).
P3DM blank model of Tobago ready for accommodating community’s knowledge
SCARBOROUGH, 3 October, 2012. Facilitators working on the blank model for the P3DM of Tobago all agreed that... “it has been challenging!”
Looking at an example of a model during the orientation, they thought that building a model would have been an easy task, but reality turned out to be quite different. Expressions of relief echo around the workshop area as the blank model is finally complete on day three of the project. Yet, in the same breath, they also give heartfelt thanks for being among the 'chosen few' selected to be part of the workshop. Facilitators are from regional and national non-governmental organizations, government agencies, inter-governmental technical agencies and members of academia.
Participatory 3D Modelling in Tobago - key venues
The workshop on Participatory 3D Modelling and Participatory Video organised by CANARI and the UWI in Tobago with assistance provided by CTA and UNDP GEF-SGP will come to an end on October 11. the venue is the Blenheim Sheep Multiplication & Research Center (yellow placemarker). The presentation of the outputs by representatives of participating communities will take place on October 12 in the morning at the Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality and Tourism Institute - Tobago campus (green placemarker)
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