"Community based monitoring (CBM) complements and provides ground truthing to the data obtained from remote sensing used to map forests in a broader scale. The following section provides some examples of the use of handheld devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptop with integration to GPS and data forms (to gather forest inventory – such as height, tree species, forest type, small scale degradation, deforestation and reforestation, cultural sites
photographs, geo-location, date-time, etc) "