Greetings from the Planet Action team!
Our "mother ship", Spot Image, is pursuing its integration into the Astrium group, and is now the GEO-Information Division of Astrium Services. Customers can expect the same level of image quality, customer service and even more value added solutions. Planet Action will continue to thrive in this new landscape. We hope to offer more solutions and technologies to projects in the future.
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Interview with Nicolas Rochas
GIS & International Cooperation Project Manager at the
Agency for Urban Development (AUD) in St Omer, France Nicolas explains the mission of the Agency for Urban of Development, as well as the project he supports in Benin. He describes how Earth Observation technologies, among which GIS tools help improve territorial planning and land use understanding. Finally, he expresses his wish to "continue bringing in expertise in urban planning in order to fight climate change, together with Planet Action".
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Focus on the Field: Sharing Project Results |
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Assessing REDD in the Juma Reserve - Amazonas, Brazil
by CIFOR
 The Bolsa Floresta Program is a Brazilian initiative aimed at rewarding indigenous populations for maintaining the environmental services provided by the tropical forests. CIFOR's role in the project is to measure the emission reductions and other conservation benefits obtained through avoided deforestation, based on spatial analysis of the SPOT imagery supplied through Planet Action (among other sources).
Expected results include (1) elaborating on recommendations for fine-tuning the Bolsa Floresta Program in collaboration with the implementing agency, the Foundation Amazon Sustainable (FAS) and (2) disseminating lessons learned as an input to the international REDD+ debate based on a comparative analysis within CIFOR's Global Comparative REDD Study.
For more information on the project and its latest findings and results, click here.
For more information on CIFOR, "comparative studies on tropical forests, climate change and REDD" click here. |
Tracking Vegetation Responses to Climate in the
Alaskan Arctic
by Woods Hole Research Center
 Vegetation has changed in recent decades in both the Alaskan tundra and boreal forests. Trends show that vegetation productivity has increased in the tundra ("greening") while boreal forests have experienced reduced productivity resulting in a "browning" of the zone. These analyses have been extended using high resolution satellite data to refine the location and magnitude of these changes and correlate them with field data.
Maps developed using remote sensing technologies help monitor changes and inform ecosystem models to better assess the implications of high latitude vegetation changes on carbon exchange under projected future climate scenarios, and to allow local people to consider adaptation and mitigation strategies.
For more information on the project and its latest findings and results, click here.
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