Thursday, 22 October 2009

Deforestation to be Monitored from Space

Google already collects satellite images for use in its Google Earth application. Among the space agencies working on the program are NASA -- who was recently ordered to monitor more asteroids by Congress without any additional funds, ESA, and the national space agencies of Japan, Germany, Italy, India, and Brazil. Together the agencies will take part in forest mapping that is most efficiently done from space using satellite images.

http://www.dailytech.com/Deforestation+to+be+Monitored+from+Space/article16573.htm

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