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Oct 23, 2015|Map of the Week|2 minutes

Map of the Week: Tracking Hurricane Patricia in Near Real-Time

Tracking Hurricane Patricia in Near Real-Time  As Hurricane Patricia – the strongest hurricane ever recorded – prepares to make landfall in Mexico, people everywhere can use Global Forest Watch tools to track hurricane winds in the face of this critical national emergency. Global Forest Watch Fires uses data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

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Apr 25, 2015|Commodities|6 minutes

GUEST POST: Satellites can mislead: policy makers beware!

By David Gaveau and Romain Pirard The loss of old-growth tropical forest area through fire and agricultural expansion has for decades challenged many of the sustainability goals set out by policy makers, conservation groups, and forest managers. As part of the solution to halt tropical deforestation, a strong trend has emerged to assign blame – and it’s industrial […]

Girl Reading News Roundup
Jan 05, 2015|News Roundups|4 minutes

Global Forest Watch News Roundup: Week of January 5

GFW News Roundup: Forest stories from around the world that demonstrate the power of spatial analysis and open data in improving management of forest landscapes To learn more about GFW, a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system, click here, or follow us on twitter at @globalforests. Top Reads of the Week Forest clearance has […]

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Dec 09, 2014|Data and Research|4 minutes

Monitoring Forest Change in Latin America with Terra-i

By Hayley Solak, Ruth Nogueron and Sarah Mann (Shampuyacu, Peru) Photo by Bruno Locatelli/CIFOR. Alert systems that quickly connect observers to the location of tree cover loss can help forest managers respond to threats with precision and speed. These alerts allow large-scale monitoring of tree cover loss using satellite datasets and sophisticated computer algorithms to […]

Girl Reading News Roundup
Nov 25, 2014|News Roundups|4 minutes

Global Forest Watch News Roundup: Week of November 24

GFW News Roundup: Forest stories from around the world that demonstrate the power of spatial analysis and open data in improving management of forest landscapes To learn more about GFW, a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system, click here, or follow us on twitter at @globalforests. Top Reads of the Week Violence, threat of […]