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• Global forest map moves forward

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A plan to create a pan-tropical map of forest cover and carbon stocks is moving ahead with data now available on Google Earth, reports the Woods Hole Research Center.
  12 hours ago

• Seeing the forest through the cloud

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 152
  Seeing the forest through the cloud Today, at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, we demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth’s forests. We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the ...
  17 hours ago

• Google Earth to monitor deforestation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  It what could be a critical development in helping tropical countries monitor deforestation, Google has unveiled a partnership with scientists using advanced remote sensing technology to rapidly analyze and map forest cover in extremely high resolution. The effort could help countries detect deforestation shortly ...
  22 hours ago

• Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Brazils development bank BNDES has announced the first five recipients of grants under the South American countrys ambitious Amazon Fund, which aims to reduce deforestation by 70 percent over the next decade.
  1 day ago

• Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest law firms. The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C.-based forest conservation ...
  2 days ago

• Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing indigenous groups with a powerful tool for defending their land and culture, while enabling them to benefit from some 21st century advancements. Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a ...
  1 week ago

• More El Salvador lahar satellite imagery

  
  Dave's Landslide Blog — Authority: 422
  In an earlier post today I highlighted the availability of satellite imagery covering the El Salvador lahar disaster, triggered by Hurricane Ida earlier this month. Whilst sitting in a conference session this morning it occurred to me that the Disaster Charter , which provides satellite images for disaster relief ...
  2 weeks ago

• Satellite imagery of the El Salvador lahars

  
  Dave's Landslide Blog — Authority: 422
  NASA has released before and after satellite images of the lahars (volcanic debris flows) triggered by Hurricane Ida in El Salvador earlier this month. The final toll of the landslides remains unclear, over 60 is the widely reported statistic. The images are false colour composites collected by the ASTER ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Google looks set to play a part in a called-for "new environmental world order" by satellite-monitoring the rates of deforestation of tropical rainforests and pinpointing illegal logging and land misuse, Google’s Northern and Central Europe head Philipp Schindler has revealed. Schindler made the announcement in ...
  2 weeks ago

• GeoEye-1 flies over Dubai Airshow

  
  UAE Community Blog — Authority: 421
  Orbiting at an altitude of 681km, GeoEye-1 is the worlds highest resolution commercial earth-imaging satellite. It passed over the Dubai Airshow and captured this awesome image. You can go to the GeoEye site to see the original and to download the 11mb high-res file. If youre interested in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hyperdynamics Reports Encouraging Initial Results From Oil Seeps Study of Offshore Guinea Concession Area

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 127
  Hyperdynamics Corporation today announced that it has received encouraging preliminary results from an oil seeps study of the company’s 31,000-square-mile oil and gas concession offshore Guinea. The survey was conducted by TDI-Brooks International of College Station, Texas.“We conducted this study to survey ...
  3 weeks ago

• Review: GPS Tuner Atlas 6.5, Off Road Navigation

  
  AllShadow.com — Authority: 114
    GPS Tuner Atlas is the most recent release of a highly developed long running GPS solution for Windows Mobile. While engineered mostly for off road use, GPS Tuner Atlas claims to bring all of the features you want to the table and more. These features everything you would expect from a GPS and one huge bonus is ...
  3 weeks ago

• El Niño Heats Up

  
  The Map Scroll — Authority: 480
  El Niño is growing stronger : This image, from the NASA/JPL Ocean Surface Topography Team, is based on measurements taken from a US/French satellite over ten days around November 1. Says NASA : El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence. Recent sea-level height data from the NASA/French Space Agency ...
  3 weeks ago

• Darfur: New Evidence of Attacks on Villages

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 132
  Back in 2007, Amnesty International launched a ground breaking website, Eyes on Darfur , which showcased satellite evidence of attacks on villages in Darfur. The images demonstrated the ongoing insecurity in the region and the destruction and violence civilians are confronted with on a daily basis. The site also ...
  3 weeks ago

• GMapCatcher lets you download and view maps offline

  
  Tech Spikes — Authority: 430
  You might have a netbook and Google Earth, but if you move around a lot, you would have realised pretty fast that having an internet connection all the time is very difficult to achieve. And there are time you need a map or satellite imagery, but you don’t have an internet connection. What GMapCatcher does ...
  3 weeks ago

• Satellite Imagery Confirms Ida’s Low is Finally Moving Away from the East Coast

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 607
  Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate “Ida the coastal low pressure area” is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast.The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-12 captured a visible image of “Ida the Coastal Low” this morning, Friday, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remote Sensing as Machine

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The content of a recent story in AllAfrica.com caught my eye due to the news that Uganda will soon have a GEONETCast satellite imagery receiver to monitor the weather and environment for increased agricultural production. The imagery is a vital link in helping these farmers obtain the data necessary to mitigate ...
  4 weeks ago

• OpenAerialMap Resurrection

  
  Mateusz Loskot — Authority: 123
  Quick forward of important announcement to all who care about future of the OpenAerialMap project. Schuyler Erle called on Facebook: Join the conf call on restarting OpenAerialMap at the Random Hacks of Kindness code jam! OAM Conference Call: Thursday 8:30AM PST
  4 weeks ago

• How to Import Maps into GPS Tuner Atlas

  
  AllShadow.com — Authority: 114
  GPS Tuner Atlas has the ability to import user created and custom maps. You can import topographical maps, hand drawn maps or any other map you have an image of. Right now GPS Tuner offers topo maps for Germany so for those of us in the US and elsewhere we can use the import function in the meantime. In this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Review: GPS Tuner Atlas 6.5.22 for Windows Mobile Pro

  
  AllShadow.com — Authority: 114
    GPS Tuner Atlas is the most recent release of a highly developed long running GPS solution for Windows Mobile. While engineered mostly for off road use, GPS Tuner Atlas claims to bring all of the features you want to the table and more. These features everything you would expect from a GPS and one huge bonus is ...
  5 weeks ago

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