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Satellite-based forest mapping platform hits its stride
2015-06-26 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Global Forest Watch, a young online forest monitoring and alert system, provides free, near real-time data on deforestation and tree-cover loss around the world. It allows users to create customized interactive maps detailing forest change, concession areas for natural resource extraction and agricultural production, conservation areas, and community land boundaries. The system acts as a research platform, providing country profiles and rankings based on forest statistics, and allowing users to crowdsource...
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