These projects tend to rely on occasional satellite survey data for monitoring (if their success is monitored at all).
Civicus is incubating www.thedatashift.org, an initiative to build civil society capacity to generate, use and curate data for monitoring development progress.
"The promise of new data sources, like Intuit and others, is more accurate, more timely and cheaper data for monitoring the economy," says Steve Landefeld, director of the bureau.
When using measurement data for monitoring there is often a desire for steady-state analysis.
Remote sensing from satellites and airborne platforms provides valuable data for monitoring and gauging river discharge.
Landsat 8 CDR provides suitable data for monitoring of forest biomass and carbon in miombo woodlands.
In legacy environments, it may require a network administrator to look at several servers to get data for monitoring.
The review found that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's data for monitoring the outcome of surgery had been "uniquely poor".
The present results also show the potential of using satellite data for monitoring of ocean environment for long time period.
In this study the application of NOAA-AVHRR satellite data for monitoring weather conditions and corn yield in the main cropping area of Argentina was analyzed.
Notwithstanding these issues, CVD registers remain an invaluable source of data for monitoring levels and trends in incidence and case fatality; reporting should therefore be mandatory.
