Google Uses Satellite Imagery to Track and Monitor Global Deforestation
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Posted by Mircea on Friday, January 8, 2010 |
Among many companies that are trying to slow down global warming, Google has been noted repeatedly, thanks to their intelligent monitoring software. Until now they have released different tools for ocean mapping and home energy consumption details and each of these proved to be very effective. Rcently, Google launched a new deforestation monitoring system that can identify areas where the forest is intensively exploited, using satellite imagery.
In present, forests offer a wide range of goods and services and people benefit directly or indirectly from them. Forest goods offered are: wood,fruit,leaves, resin, the meat of wild animals and feed for domestic animals. The services that forest offers are: soil protection, land stability, improves climatic factors, air purification, water flow rate adjustment. So, we can say that the forest is 100% useful for maintining life on earth. The trouble is that in some areas on earth, forests exploitation has exceeded normal limits and because of this it may cause climate disorders at planetary level.
To create this software Google has partnered with Carnegie Institution for Science and Imazon and their primary objective is to monitor over the years, the changes in size and shape of forests, in order to reduce carbon emissions and to eliminate excessive forests exploitation. “We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly disappearing forests…Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the EU, and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships and trains worldwide. According to the Stern Review – the report prepared for the British government in 2006 on the economics of climate change by Lord Nicholas Stern – protecting the world’s standing forests is a highly cost-effective way to cut carbon emissions and mitigate climate change” said a statement on the Google.org blog.
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Categories: Co2 emissions, Global Warming
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