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For the first time worldwide, free and ready-to-use high-resolution satellite data is now available to monitor forests and help reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The monitoring system has been launched by FAO and other partners as part of the Global Forest Resources Assessment.
Google is joining forces with space agencies around the world and the conservation organization Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to monitor deforestation rates using satellite imagery. The GEO is a global partnership of 80 governments and more than 50 organizations...
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Future Is All About Location--Indoors and Out
Mark Sullivan, PC World
I can think of quite a few times when I've needed to locate someone in a large crowd--an overhead view of the scene with my contact's location blinking would have been extremely helpful, had such an app existed...
Does geospatial data want to be free?
The latest round of Google Maps innovation, with map updates that mirror the crowdsourced data approach of OpenStreetMaps (OSM), as well as the addition of parcelshas many data providers worried about their livelihood. |
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Hrishikesh Samant
