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Subject:
tracking the earth's forests
From:
"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:17:34 -0600
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Subject:        tracking the earth's forests
Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:07:36 -0500
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



This was an interesting article in yesterday's _NY Times_:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/science/earth/new-interactive-tool-helps-track-earths-forests.html?ref=science>.
They link to a recently developed interactive map tool:
<http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest>.
Although in its early stages, the tool has gotten a good bit of praise.
There are plans to update the tool yearly with data from NASA's Landstat
8 satellite.

That NY Times discussion refers back to the original article just
appearing in Science, "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century
Forest Cover Change": <http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/850>.

         Joel Kovarsky

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