forestwatchers

ForestWatchersa citizen project for forest monitoring

Tropical forests

Provide habitat for most of the world's terrestrial plant and animal species. Photo by Leonardo F. Freitas

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These ecosystems are under increasing threat!

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Deforestation is responsible for almost 20%of all global greenhouse gas (GHG).

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The goal: build a global network of volunteers to monitor forests across the world with limited means of self monitoring using a web application

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Hackfest, Conferences, Workshops, Summits...

Our starting pointA collaboration with Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE):

● Leader in deforestation monitoring,

● Responsible for the DETER program (Real Time Deforestation Detection System),

● Trains monitoring teams from other developing countries, and

● Supports open data policies. And UNOSAT, experts in delivering imagery analysis and satellite solutions.

Ask volunteers to check for deforested areas in satellite images

Short-term goalGet an alpha version before the Rio+20 summit on global sustainability at the end of June!

Thank You!

teleyinex@gmail.com

If you are interested to get involved, contact us!Daniel Lombraña @teleyinex

project-citizencyberscience-coordinators@cern.chCCC @CyberSciCentre

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