Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge and express our appreciation to the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service for funding this project through their International Program. Without their contribution and influence this project would not have been possible.

A special thanks to all our collaborators in Asia for the work they have put in to manage and monitor their sentinel gardens.

We are also grateful for the help Device Magic has given us throughout the project. Their responses were always quick and concise. Without the quickly scalable international reach of Device Magic’s platform the data capturing application would not have been deployable within such a short timeframe.

lastly, but not least this project owes its success to Yiyi Dong for connecting all the different components of the project in the United States and China overcoming the hurdles of travelling to China during the COVID-19 pandemic.