TOP STORIES
State of native forests in New Zealand revealed
New maps derived directly from satellite images have revealed that nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s land area is taken up by indigenous forest. Landcare Research’s EcoSat forest maps show native forests cover nearly 66,000 km2, 24.8% of the country.
Pygmy elephants tracked by GPS
GPS is helping the World Wildlife Fund shed light on the pygmy elephants in Malaysia. For the last six months, five pygmy elephants have been outfitted with a collar that can send GPS locations to the WWF daily. WWF will be following these elephants for several years by satellite to identify their home ranges
Sahara's edge studied from space to improve water management
An international team has worked on the edge of Sahara to gather data on the ground and in the air, to be compared with imagery of the same region acquired by ESA satellites. This will support an ambitious project to apply satellite remote sensing to improve monitoring and management of vast water aquifers.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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GIS and Natural Hazard Management
Philip J Burden
GIS Business Manager
Khatib & Alami CEC
UAE
The last twelve months has seen numerous well-publicized catastrophic natural disasters occur throughout the world, including the tsunami of Asia, several hurricanes of the USA, and the earthquakes of Pakistan/India. What each of these events has in common aside from the extent of loss of life, livelihood and materials, was the lack of preparedness of authorities to react to each event.
Manipulation of NDVI for delineating drought vulnerable areas
Uzma Rabab
Visiting Faculty Member
NUST IGIS, Islamabad
Pakistan
Timely information about the onset of drought, extent, intensity, duration and impacts can limit drought-related losses of life, human suffering and decrease damage to economy and environment. The present research work has been carried out with the aim to integrate SRS and GIS for the identification of drought vulnerable areas in Sindh and major part of Balochistan. Arid and extremely arid conditions prevail in these areas and the amount of rainfall varies with time and space.
Read More Articles on ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Environmental Change Monitoring
GIS applications in air pollution modeling
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PERSPECTIVE
GIS: Helping manage our world
Jack Dangermond
President
ESRI, USA
GIS provides a particularly valuable framework for managing both human and natural activities because it facilitates the integration and analysis of complex data, making it readily accessible to scientists, planners and the general public.
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CONFERENCE REPORTS
25th International Cartographic Congress of Indian National Cartographic Association
28th November – 1st December 2005
Sagar, Madhaya Pradesh
India
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ANNOUNCEMENT
MapWorld 2006 (MapInfo's Annual 13th Global User Conference)
May 2-4, 2006
Pointe South Mountain Resort
Phoenix, Arizona
USA
For more information/registration please visit
Enquiries: events@mapinfo.com
Geoinformation for Development
July 7, 2006
Salzburg University
Salzburg
Austria
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