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Vital Signs Data Collection

Vital Signs is a monitoring system for agriculture, nature and human well-being. We have built an image library from all five countries where Vital Signs is currently operating: Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Visit the archive for more country-specific images.

Jeremia Msimbe estimates the height and width of a small bush during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Petro Haule and Jeremia Msimbe measure the diameter of a stem during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Jeremia Msimbe measures the diameter of a stem during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Bob Scholes and Dino Martins demonstrate how to prepare samples for a plant press in a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Field technicans learn navigation fundamentals and how to use a GPS during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Valeriani Msofe uses a soil auger, with Emanuel Martin during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Field technician Joseph Martin takes a soil sample during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Joseph Mwalugelo, Mark Musumba and Jeremia Msimbe weigh a soil sample during a Vital Signs training in Tanzania.
Valeriani Msofe, Jeremia Msimbe, Petro Haule, Said Habibu and Valeriani Msofe evaluate a soil sample for clay content during a training in Tanzania. Through a combination of field and laboratory anaylsis, Vital Signs measures 52 soil variables, including texture, macro and micro-nutrients and organic carbon.
Joseph Martin flags the corner of an agricultural plot during the training of Tanzania's first Vital Signs field technicians. The measurements made by Joseph and his team will help to create an accurate picture of the links between agriculture, ecosystems and human well-being.
Vital Signs technicians Jonathan Dabo, Gabriel Appiah and Benson Owusu discuss next week's fieldwork at CSIR headquarters in Accra, Ghana.
Field technician Hakizimana Jacques collects a soil sample in the highlands of Rwanda. Vital Signs technicians have collected over 3000 samples from 1000 different farm fields.
Ntamunoza Augustin and Nzakizwanayo Eraste measure the height and canopy spread of a eucalyptus tree that was planted as fuel wood, Uwinka, Rwanda.
Vital Signs field technician Hakizimana Jacques measures the distance between eucalyptus trees in a steep fuelwood grove in the village of Uwinka, just outside of Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda.
Field technician Ntamunoza Augustin measures the height of a tree in the village of Uwinka, just outside of Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda.
Rodrigue Mugabo completes a household survey with Odette, a farmer in Uwinka, Rwanda.
Nzakizwanayo records data in a farmer's field in Uwinka, Rwanda.
Mayira Boniface struggles to cut a trail through the steep forests of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda to reach a data collection point. Their sweat and hard work help provide insights and information at the scale at which agricultural investment decisions are made.
Ntamunoza Augustin watches a field technician collect a soil sample inside Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda.
Hakizimana Jacques determines a soil sample is a silty clay inside Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda.
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