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The U.S. Forest Service is investing $257,000 on an application that uses Google satellite imagery to help homeowners view their land and see the benefits of planting trees on their property. The iTreetools application has tools for users to look up their house, draw their building footprint, and assess the value of each tree on [...]
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The Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program, a network of coastal radar devices in California and Japan, were able to detect the March 11 tsunami in Japan, although they weren’t used for this warning purpose. This was the first time that a tsunami has been tracked by radar, and could prove to be a useful means [...]
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The Aqueduct Alliance is a consortium created by the World Resources Institute to provide companies and investors with details about global water risks as water scarcity emerges as a defining challenge of this century. The global water risk database allows for mapping of risk levels with unprecedented detail and resolution. The global database of water [...]
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The Quebec Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand, announced plans to conserve 600,000 square kilometers of Northern Quebec yesterday when discussing the conservation side of the Plan Nord project plan. Plan Nord was originally announced in May, with an economic development focus that will see the government investing $80 billion over 25 [...]
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Last week, I spent a dream vacation in Alaska’s Inside Passage fishing for salmon and halibut. Recent changes to the fishing laws in Alaska provided a good deal of the dialogue with our fishing guides, who are always torn between client demands, regulations, and sustaining their living in balance with the commercial fishing industry. With [...]
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The National Science Foundation has partnered with four universities on a five-year $18.5 million grant to develop sustainable ways to manage urban water. The Urban Water Engineering Research Centers (ERC) will be led by Stanford with additional labs at the University of California-Berkeley, Colorado School of Mines, and New Mexico State University. The Urban Water [...]
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With increasing global change comes a need to return ecosystems to their strongest natural health, and to ensure that our built environment can adapt rather than crumble from natural forces. Stepped-up ecological change is forcing new levels of land and infrastructure management, and geospatial technology is well-poised to analyze impacts, improve designs, and monitor outcomes. [...]
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A Netherlands-based partnership between WaterWatch and Basfood, two providers of geo-information services, has yielded a new worldwide source for data on water and vegetation on land surfaces. The mission of eLEAF is to support sustainable use of water, to increase food production, and to protect the environment. The water information service combines more than 50 [...]
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Creek Watch is a free iPhone application created by IBM Research in conjunction with California State Water Resources for monitoring the health of watersheds. The app enables users to quickly collect details about their local waterway, including the amount of water, the rate of flow, the amount of trash as well as capturing a [...]
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