Authors:
Matias Luna
1
;
Enrico Gomes
1
;
Alexandrino Gonçalves
2
;
1
;
Nuno Rodrigues
2
;
1
;
Anabela Marto
2
;
1
and
Rita Ascenso
2
;
1
Affiliations:
1
School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
;
2
CIIC, ESTG, Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Augmented Reality, Mobile Application, iOS, Android, Reforestation.
Abstract:
Forest areas are essential to life on planet Earth and, without them, human society would not be able to sustain itself. Yet, they are under constant threat of reduction and damage, and many of them have been lost worldwide. Besides preventing their disforestation in the first place, awareness for maintaining, replanting, and restoring these areas should be raised to live in a greener and healthier environment. Information in modern times is mostly passed on through technology and, with the rise of Augmented Reality (AR), coupling both smartphones (devices that most people use in current times) and nature seems like an opportunity to raise consciousness to the cause. In this paper, we present an application to relate both Augmented Reality and reforestation, to raise awareness of environmental damages by allowing users to virtually place 3D models of trees on a real surface, using their own mobile phones, helping to plan and to visualize the replanting process over previously destroy
ed areas.
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