Earth Observation

(Climate) Information Wants to Be Free

Originally Published by NYT > Environment

in 1984, when Stewart Brand mused at the first Hackers Conference on how information “wants” to be both expensive and free, he was talking about monetary value. In fights over information related to global warming, the tug of war is partly about money because of the value of the status quo (fossil fuels) and the [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2010
Climate, Earth Observation, Politics

Agriculture and Food Availability
Remote Sensing of Agriculture for Food Security Monitoring in the Developing World

Afghanistan agriculture with mtns in backgroundFor one-sixth of the world’s population – roughly 1 billion children, women and men – growing, buying or receiving adequate, affordable food to eat is a daily uncertainty. The World Monetary Fund reports that food prices worldwide increased 43 percent in 2007-2008, and unpredictable growing conditions make subsistence farming, on which many depend, a risky business. Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are part of a network of both private and government institutions that monitor food security in many of the poorest nations in the world.

Michael E Budde, Et al, posted on February 8th, 2010
Agriculture, Earth Observation, Featured Article, Health | No Comments »

Jason ocean mission secures funds

Originally Published by BBC News

Posted on February 6th, 2010
Earth Observation, Oceans

The long-awaited Oceans movie premieres

Originally Published by ESA

Posted on February 3rd, 2010
Ecosystems, Oceans

Earth Information Systems/Capacity Building
Geo-Wiki.org: Harnessing the power of volunteers, the internet and Google Earth to collect and validate global spatial information

Cropped satellite image of global land cover disagreements in both cropland and forest areas based on analysis of 3 coexisting land productsDo you want to participate in a really big project? Geo-Wiki.org is looking for volunteers in the global Earth observation community to validate, augment and even disagree with existing spatial information and to aid in the collection of new information through the powerful resource of crowd sourcing. In recent years the ability to collect spatial information from volunteers has greatly expanded through the combination of Google Earth, geo-tagged photos and the Internet. So whether you are a confluence hunter, a geographer, or simply a Very Observant Person (VOP), you may be able to contribute important in-situ data about global land cover to GEO-Wiki.org.

McCallum et al., posted on February 1st, 2010
Articles, Earth Observation, Technology | No Comments »

Avignon, France

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

Posted on January 31st, 2010
Earth Observation

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