Participatory Mapping & Monitoring

You will be provided an overview of collaborative approaches, so you can learn how to enable participation in mapping, monitoring to your environmental management projects


You’ll learn how environmental monitoring, management and planning initiatives can all benefit from increased community involvement!

This course will provide you with an overview of my signature 'P-UAS' approach, including methods to effectively use your drone maps to collect local environmental knowledge. I will introduce you to key participatory GIS techniques to support the collaborative collection and creation of spatial information. We will also discuss the importance of validating local knowledge as well as learn communication and information-sharing techniques including how to use freely available ICT tools to enable accessibility & ensure wide-spread understanding of your environmental information!

This is definitely my favorite course to teach - as it underscores the role and value of collaborative environmental management - let me show you how!

All of my training courses include access to

To support your learning journey

  • Live Cohort Courses with Coaching

    Unlike other virtual training - all of my courses are run 'live' as 'cohorts' where you'll learn along together with a small group of students. Besides our class time together - each week I also host office hours to answer any of your questions. Additionally you'll have access to my private Facebook community where I share share any industry news & tips and the group can chat more about drones & we can celebrate our achievements together!

  • Archive of Learning Resources

    You will have access to my complete 'drone & geospatial' resource library that I have been compiling since 2015. My archive is updated quarterly and includes useful reports, users guides, documents, blogs, research articles, videos, podcasts, links to my favorite websites plus free online training courses - categorized by industry and applications for easy reference!

  • Checklists, Datasheets & Logbooks

    Ensure that your drone operations meet international commercial operating standards! Based on my Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that I've developed for my own commercial drone operations - I will provide you with flight & equipment checklists, data sheets, pilot reporting logs as well as forms for evaluating flight requests, flight planning and maintenance procedures.

PreFlight Checks

Drone Training (Saint Lucia National Trust)

My Approach

Transforming how we work together to create ecosystem-based information

  • Building Capacity & Understanding

    I firmly believe that we need to work to strengthening people’s technological skills to allow us to collaboratively work together to better understand & create holistic information for our environmental challenges as well as allow for the development of effective ‘locally-relevant’ solutions.

  • Mapping & Monitoring Techiques

    I have extensively research and developed a comprehensive drone mapping and monitoring methodology using off-the-shelf drone technologies so that you can quickly and easily plan and conduct mapping surveys to create accurate mapping data to aid your planning, monitoring and management decisions.

  • Create & Share Information

    My unique 'Participatory UAS' Approach will allow you to effectively use your drone mapping data to map and create understandable information but also how to leverage automated analytic dashboards & reporting tools to summarize and remotely share using web-mapping and social media platforms.

Come fly with me

Dr. Kim Baldwin

Instructor Bio

I am Dr. Kim Baldwin, a marine ecologist and commercial drone pilot with over 20 years of experience conducting environmental field research and teaching in the Caribbean. As the Director of Marine Spatial Information Solutions (MarSIS), my mission is to empower individuals with the skills and tools to easily collect, understand, and create holistic geospatial information. Together, we can collaboratively develop practical solutions to effectively manage our environment.

Throughout my career, I have trained hundreds of individuals and large organizations across the Caribbean and California in safely flying drones, undertaking commercial operations, and implementing mapping and monitoring strategies. By equipping them with the necessary skills, they are able to collect, analyze, and widely share environmental information, ultimately improving collaborative environmental management.

Over the years, I have refined my stakeholder engagement and mapping techniques, and I am excited to teach you a straightforward approach that can be easily applied to any industry-specific environmental application. Whether you are an individual, organization, or industry, I am here to help you leverage technology and improve your approach to environmental management. Together, we can make a positive impact in our world!

Dr. Kim Baldwin

PhD, MSc, BSc, Drone Pilot & Instructor

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My courses have been applied by various industries for variety of applications