ForestWatchers.net A citizen project for forest monitoring | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
►http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/01/forestwatchers-net-a-citizen-project-for-forest-monitoring
ForestWatchers proposes a new paradigm in conservationism, based on the convergence of volunteer computing/thinking with free (or donated) catalogs of high-resolution Earth imagery.
This citizen science project aims at making possible for anyone (locals, volunteers, NGOs, governments, etc), anywhere in the world, to monitor selected patches of forest across the globe, almost in real-time, using a computer connected to the Internet.
The project is an international partnership between the Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Federal University of Sao Paulo, the Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC) and the Open Society Foundations.
►http://forestwatchers.net/assets/static/img/burning.jpg
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