Towards crowdsourcing forest monitoring with Google

  • Posted on: 25 June 2012
  • By: köbben

[from the Google Lat-Long Blog]

In the last seven years Brazil has reduced deforestation considerably, and forest monitoring has been a key part of this effort. Imazon, a Brazilian NGO working to promote sustainable development in the Amazon, has developed a forest monitoring system called SAD, and has been working with Google to integrate Google Earth Engine into our work. They’re now ready to share the progress and to take the next step in our efforts to crowdsource forest monitoring in Brazil and, potentially, the rest of the world.

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