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Mountain Gorilla Protection:
A Geomatics Approach
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"Gorillas in the data
base"
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Related Projects
and Activities in the region
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CARPE
is a long-term initiative by USAID to address the issues of deforestation
and biodiversity loss in the Congo Basin forest zone, in the middle of
the African continent. It is a program funded by US-AID and operated by
the University of Maryland. They will produce a variety of remote sensing,
GIS, and other data.
Belgian Satellite
Vegetation Map-1996
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1996 Belgium
vegetation map derived from satellite data (Zaire portion only)
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The United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European Union funded
satellite-derived vegetation
mapping activities and related field work in
1996. The Belgian private company I-MAGE Consult conducted the work and
has carried out a multi-temporal analysis and mapping of the deforestation
patterns around the refugee camps. In the same context and in collaboration
with UNHCR, work is now being done on a more integrated approach that is
based on the development of specific GIS applications for post-crisis period
management.
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UN Food and
Agriculture Organization Africover
project
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The goal of
this program is to establish, for the whole of Africa, a digital
geo-referenced database on land cover and a GIS database (geodesy, toponomy,
roads, hydrography) at a 1:200,000 scale (1:100,000 for small countries
and specific areas).
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UN Environment
Program (UNEP)
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Tropical Ecosystem
Environment Observation by Satellite
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The TREES
program is funded by the Directorate General for Environment of the European
Commission. The primary objectives of the TREES
Project are to:
produce
relevant an accurate information on the state of the tropical forest ecosystems
(First phase)
analyse
this information in terms of deforestation trends and its possible impacts
(TREES II)
make
the information available in an appropriate format to the user community
Global Rain
Forest Mapping Project
The Global
Rain Forest Mapping (GRFM) project is a joint collaboration between, among
others, SAI GVM, the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)
and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), aiming at producing spatially
and temporally contiguous, 100 m resolution, radar image mosaics over the
tropical belt on the Earth by use of the JERS-1 L-band SAR.
Home and
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Dian Fossey ~ Maps
and Mapping ~ Aerial
Photography ~ Older
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Elevation Model ~ 3-d
Elevation Models ~ Movies!
~ Disaster
~ GPS ~
GIS ~ Airborne
Hyperspectral Imaging ~ National
Geographic Society Exhibit ~ European
Space Agency Initiative ~ Georgia
Tech ~ Other Research in the
Region ~ In The News
~ Congo (the movie) ~
Conclusions
~ Future Directions ~ The
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International ~ Web
Links ~ Contact
Info
For more information
contact Scott Madry
