An international team of geographers and conservationists has developed a system to monitor deforestation across Latin America in near real-time using satellite data.
Although Brazil has had a near real-time monitoring system in place since 2008, this is the first time an equivalent has been developed for the rest of Latin America. The launch of the system, called Terra-I, coincides with the Rio+20 conference on the environment.
It works by monitoring changes to land cover every 16 days for every 250 metres on the ground, with a view to help national governments, conservationists and those implementing climate-related policy to assess trends in deforestation.
By: Olivia Solon, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/21/deforestation-tracker-latin-america
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