Collect Earth Online helps fight illegal mining in Amazon
Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region.
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Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region.
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|Lena Pransky, Diana Kurkovsky West, and Emily Adams | NASA Science Coordination Office
SilvaCarbon is an important collaborator with SERVIR.
The Monitoring Forest Dynamics to Enable Biodiversity Conservation in the Amazon service - now completed - helped introduce "TerraBio," a monitoring tool to assess the impact of private sector engagement on biodiversity conservation in the Amazon.
It may seem like farming is the enemy when it comes to preventing deforestation in the Amazon—and with good reason. The expansion of large-scale farming and cattle ranching is a leading cause of deforestation. However, the role of small-scale farming is less understood.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
Collect Earth Online is a custom built, open-source, satellite image viewing and interpretation system developed by SERVIR, FAO, and other partners as a tool for use in projects that require land cover and/or land use data.
The Map Validation with Collect Earth Online (CEO) service enables more accurate forest monitoring data, which is necessary for the evaluation of public policy related to forest management.
The Ecosystem Services Modeling in the Amazon's Forest-Agricultural Interface service provides accurate maps for stakeholders and decision-makers to understand how agricultural production can lead to deforestation, particularly due to palm oil and cacao production.
The Forecasting Seasonal to Sub-seasonal Fire and Agricultural Risk from Drought service provides information for evaluating drought conditions at temporal and spatial resolution to predict fire vulnerability in the Amazon basin.
The Mapping Soil Fertility in Ecuador service, in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Agriculture, generated high-resolution (30 m) digital soil maps of key nutrients for agricultural development.