| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Twenty one years of satellite derived vegetation index and rainfall-related data for Africa |
| A new tool, the ARTEMIS Charting Applet (ACA), consists of a very small but powerful charting programme written in Java and a file containing the statistics extracted from ARTEMIS imagery for approximately 400 zones of Africa.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/EN0603_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/EN0603_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/EN0603_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niņo situation and prospects: 3 December 2002 |
| The latest "El Niņo situation and prospects" reports that there is a virtually 100% probability of El Niņo conditions to persist for the remainder of 2002 and into early 2003.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN1201_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN1201_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN1201_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| New publication: Global Land Cover Network |
| SD-Dimensions announces a new publication from the
Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment group. Entitled "Global Land Cover Network", this publication contains the proceedings of the FAO/UNEP Expert Consultation on Strategies for Global Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0802_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0802_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0802_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niņo situation and prospects: 29 July 2002 |
| This update reports that the likelihood of an El Niņo taking place at the end of this year has risen to about 90%. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0801_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0801_en.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0801_en.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Preparation of a land cover database through remote sensing and GIS: Pilot study in Bulgaria |
| The Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment group
publishes a special, Number 21 in the Remote sensing for
decision-makers series:"Preparation of a land cover database through remote sensing and GIS: Pilot study in Bulgaria". |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0702_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0702_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0702_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niņo situation and prospects: 7 June 2002 |
| 7 June 2002. This El Niņo situation and prospects report notes that uncertainty continues to prevail about a full-fledged El Niņo, with Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) remaining slightly above average, while the typical response of the atmosphere is still not setting in.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0602_en.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niņo situation and prospects: 6 May 2002 |
| The 6 May update of "El Niņo situation and prospects" notes that uncertainty continues to prevail about a full-fledged El Niņo developing this year: Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) remain above average, but the expected response of the atmosphere fails to develop. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0503_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0503_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0503_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| ASIACOVER - Towards the Development and Applications of a Multi-purpose Environmental and Natural Resources Information Base for Food Security and Sustainable Development |
| The renewable natural resources of many Asian countries have come under severe strain over the past two or three decades and most indicators point towards a continuation of this trend. Whilst a large amount of data related to land cover exist in Asia, most are not consistent over large geographic areas and therefore cannot be aggregated at regional and/or sub-regional scale. Hence, the aim of the ... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/en0301_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/en0301_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/en0301_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niņo situation and prospects: April 2002 |
| April 2002. This report is a coupled atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon; predictions are based on several independent observations. To estimate future El Niņo-Southern Oscillation (or ENSO) conditions, a common practice is to compare different reputable models that currently represent the state-of-the-art as far as dynamical and statistical ENSO prediction systems are concerned.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0401_en.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| TEMS (Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites database) |
| The New TEMS database is now on line. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites database (TEMS) is an international directory of sites (T.Sites) and networks that carry out long-term terrestrial monitoring and research activities. Based on a core list of 110 variables, the database provides information on the "who, what and where" of long term terrestrial monitoring for use by both the scientific... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/EN0501_en.htm |
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