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Michael Batek

Overview - C-CAP Land Cover Atlas - Digital Coast - 0 views

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land cover maps ny state coasts forest development landscape change

shared by Michael Batek on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Batek on 26 Oct 11
     
    This online data viewer provides user-friendly access to regional land cover and land cover change information developed through NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP). The Land Cover Atlas eliminates the need for desktop geographic information system software, or advanced technical expertise, by processing C-CAP data for the user and providing easy access to that distilled information.
Courtney Wilson

Brazil Announces Plan To Create World's Largest Tropical Forest Reserve - Environmental... - 0 views

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Amazon Conservation Stakeholders Agriculture

shared by Courtney Wilson on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The announcement today of the creation of the Terra do Meio (Land in the Middle) reserve, which will cover about 9.8 million acres, in the National Park and Ecological Station, will be compleme
  • The announcement today of the creation of the Terra do Meio (Land in the Middle) reserve, which will cover about 9.8 million acres, in the National Park and Ecological Station, will be complemented next week by the protection of an additional 7.4 million acres of sustainable development reserves, largely for traditional forest communities.  The protection plan signals the government's intention to exert control over one of the most lawless and violent regions in the Amazon frontier.
  • Creating the proposed mosaic of reserves in the Terra do Meio will do more than just protect an area about the size of Maine, which is currently suffering heavy invasion from land grabbers.  The reserves will also link two existing groups of indigenous territories, resulting in the creation of the largest continuous corridor - nearly 62 million acres, about the size of the United Kingdom - of protected tropical forest in the world.
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  • The proposal for creation of the reserve mosaic was originally formulated by the grassroots Movement for the Development of the Transamazon and the Xingu (MTDX), a coalition of small farmers along the Transamazon highway. 
  • The farmers also fear that more deforestation, as soy farming and cattle ranching expand, will reduce rainfall and cut crop yields
Nancy Trautmann

Where the Trees Are - 0 views

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Maps Carbon forestry NASA

shared by Nancy Trautmann on 16 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Nancy Trautmann on 16 Jan 12
     
    A downloadable US forest map assembled from space-based radar, satellite sensors, computer models, and a massive amount of ground-based data. It is possibly the highest resolution and most detailed view of forest structure and carbon storage ever assembled for any country. "Trees are one of Earth's largest banks for storing the carbon that gets emitted by natural processes and human activities. Forests cover about 30 percent of the planet's surface, and as much as 45 percent of the carbon stored on land is tied up in forests."
Nancy Trautmann

ChangeMatters :: Using Landsat Imagery to Map Change - 0 views

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imagery mapping land cover

shared by Nancy Trautmann on 16 May 14 - No Cached
  • Nancy Trautmann on 16 May 14
     
    Jim found this site but is too shy to post it on Diigo. It has side-by-side imagery showing 1975, 2000, and change in vegetative cover in that time interval. Searchable by location.
Michael Batek

Ocean Basemap - 3 views

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oceans marine bathymetry data GIS Google Earth

shared by Michael Batek on 21 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Batek on 21 Jun 11
     
    This map is designed to be used as a base map by marine GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone interested in ocean data. The base map includes bathymetry, marine water body names, undersea feature names, and derived depth values in meters. Land features include administrative boundaries, cities, inland waters, roads, overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery.
  • Karen Steele-Avery on 30 Jun 11
     
    You are the BEST, Mike!
Michael Batek

Digital Coast - NOAA Coastal Services Center - 0 views

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data analysis maps gis visualization land cover environment noaa coast

shared by Michael Batek on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Batek on 26 Oct 11
     
    Learn more about the kinds of data available and download data. Use these tools to turn data into the useful information your organization needs. Update your skills by participating in one of these training programs. See how data and tools are used to address coastal management issues.
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