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• REDD Preparations Underway and GIS Shines

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Now that COP 15 is over, with one of the only commitments made toward Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), the move is on to map and monitor forests. GIS has long played a role in forest measuring, assessment, monitoring, planning and management. With the embrace of REDD by the international ...
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• EPA Releases Enforcement Actions with Map Interface

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Every year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency releases information about enforcement actions and cases against polluters throughout the country. This year the details of code enforcement actions, and criminal cases prosecuted, are presented via an online interactive map.The interface allows you to pick actions ...
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• Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Continues Its Contribution to New Age of Energy Generation

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 132
  SolarPower2.jpg Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) , the American subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation ( TYO:7701 ), headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, continues to contribute to the new age of energy generation.
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• Google Captures Geo Spotlight in Copenhagen

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Google has a high geospatial profile in Copenhagen. The announcement of their forest monitoring system, named Earth Engine, is getting a lot of press coverage. Google is synonymous with cutting-edge technology these days, and their pledge to provide the system for free to tropical countries to monitor their forest ...
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• Deal on Preserving Forests Nears

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  The forest preservation compensation program called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is nearing approval at the climate conference in Copenhagen. The deal compensates countries for preserving their forests, placing a value on the service of forests and other open lands in absorbing ...
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• Climate Talks Stall Over Transparency

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  China has begun promoting an aggressive reduction in emissions and has talked about a 40 to 45 percent reduction in energy intensity, but talks have stalled because it is refusing to accept international monitoring of its emission levels. This refusal of transparency harkens back to the Beijing Olympics where China ...
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• India Aids Tea Growers with Remote Sensing

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working with tea growers in Assam and West Bengal to apply remote sensing and GIS for better tea yields. The project would help growers determine sites suitable for planting new crops, and would also assist with water resource mapping.Read more about the tea project via ...
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• Fugro Insists Dubai Palm Island is Sinking

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Nakheel, the developer of Dubai’s iconic Palm Jumeirah island, denies the claims that the island is sinking.  Fugro-owned NPA Satellite Mapping conducted a speculative survey of the island in 2003 and 2008, which shows that some subsidence and that the island is susceptible to flooding as sea levels rise.Read more ...
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• NOAA SEeks to Apply Cap and Trade to Fisheries

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric association has proposed a cap-and-trade type scheme for the better management of national fisheries. Under the catch share proposal, a catch share mechanism would be put in place that places hard limits on the number of fish that can be caught and fishermen are able to buy and ...
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• Burning Forests Linked to Drought

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Researchers at the School of the Environment & Society at Swansea University are using a new rainfall observation record over a 13-year period from both satellite and rain gauges along with satellite readings of Aerosol Optical Depth (which measures the amount of particles in the air, including smoke) to discover ...
  3 weeks ago

• GeoChronos Harnesses the Grid and the Social Network

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  There’s a nice overview of GeoChronos in International Science Grid This Week. GeoChronos is a web portal that will launch soon that is designed to help Earth observation scientists harness the grid and social networks in order to make discoveries. The web portal aims to help scientists share data and scientific ...
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• Virtual StreamLab Helps to Restore Stream to their Natural State

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Researchers at the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics (NCED) at the University of Minnesota have developed a virtual stream computer model called Virtual StreamLab to help restore streams to a healthier and more natural state. Virtual StreamLab demonstrates the physics of natural water flows at an ...
  3 weeks ago

• North Pacific Gyre

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 127
  How many of you have heard of the North Pacific Gyre? I posted an article that should be read again.  For your convenience I have posted it here for you:Plastic Twice The Size of Texas Floating in The PacificI read a story a while back that continues to haunt me; one you don’t hear much about. [...]
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• New Map Shows the Implications of Climate Change

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  A new map was launched by the UK’s Met Office to highlight the implications of temperature rise. The map allows readers to explore the impacts of a global temperature rise of 4 °C on such resources as forests, crops, water, marine life and weather.Visit this site for a full-screen version.You can read more about ...
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• Diamond: Will Big Business Save the Earth?

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Noted author and geographer Jared Diamond has an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times in which he questions the typical assumptions that big business is out to despoil the planet. While he shared this belief not long ago, he’s now tempered his thinking, and shares a series of examples of large companies that are ...
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• California Visualizes Climate Change Adaptation

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schawrzenegger unveiled a Google Earth visualization of climate change adaptation for the state. The effort is part of the state’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, which is detailed on the California Climate Change Portal. The video tour below provides an overview of the ...
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• Gordon Brown Promotes Satellites to Monitor Deforestation

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  In a meeting over the weekend in Trinidad, Prime Minister Gordon Brown promoted the idea of a new Launch Fund that would be funded by richer countries to incentivize poorer countries to halt deforestation and develop low-carbon energy sources. To police the program, Brown suggested a constellation of remote sensing ...
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• Carbon Benefits Project Encourages Sustainable Development

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 433
  The Carbon Benefits Project is developing a web-based measuring, monitoring and modelling system to assess the amount of carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions that are produced and stored in soil and vegetation by various activities. The model will look at agriculture, forestry and rangeland to address issues ...
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