Remote Weather Station on Feathery Hill near Negrito. Various stations have been placed in the vicinity to report hourly data to fire managers.
- peanuts are “arachides” in Cameroonian French
- go – is probably marcher or rouller
- family units: petite famille (marie et femme et some children), grande famille (more than one wife and grown up children
- is it possible to have voice recorded messages that read out what is in the text-output message box (for those that cannot read my french)
- a hectare is a carre
- other things farmers have to do: repair roads, deal with illness, mourn deaths, and generally don’t work sundays
- coffee is always sold (not used)
- maize is about 15,000 F per sac, and about 10 sacks per field
- coffee is harvested at Xmas
- fields might be used for 2 crops e.g. growing peanuts in the shade of maize plants (mayans used to grow beans (nitrogen-fixing))
- LOGGING and PLAYBACK need to be the urgent focus
- we spoke about the need to get climate data (forecasts and historical) and whether we can help set up a weather station e.g. with EarthWatch
- Wrt to weather we care about things like the rainy season starting early or late, and if rains fall very hard (with winds) at a time when maize can get knocked over (as happened two year ago)
- we need a slide show or images/maps to support the simulation
- need to test car battery, inverter and 4 laptops setup (with router)
- reminded me again, practice not using left hand
- find out when SEI trip will be later in the year
- Investigate the Digital Replay software (Nottingham (Equator Project)
- We also need a memory card for the video camera
- Chase the accessories for the voice recorder