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Friday 18 April 2014

Over Decade Of Global Forest Change Mapped By Google Earth

Over Decade Of Global Forest Change Mapped By Google Earth.


http://www.ibtimes.com/over-decade-global-forest-change-mapped-google-earth-1471640

The map tracks changes in the world’s forests during the years 2000 to 2012.Available to the public, it was created from satellite data and has the ability to zoom in to the high resolution of 30m, reports BBC News

"This is the first map of forest change that is globally consistent and locally relevant," said Hansen. "What would have taken a single computer 15 years to perform was completed in a matter of days using Google Earth Engine computing."

The map highlighted great forest losses in Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay and Angola, said a study on the project in the journal Science.There is very less green area over India also.



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