Posts on the Topic "satellites"
Remote sensing: monitoring the Cash for Work Programme. Information factsheet
03/04/2017
In order to enhance its capacity to observe large swathes of territory on a regular basis, as well as viewing otherwise inaccessible areas, SWALIM developed a remote monitoring system using remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing (RS) is the ability to capture and analyse information from the earth’s...
Trees, forests and land use in drylands: The first global assessment. Conducted using Open Foris Collect Earth
30/03/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Global Drylands Assessment is a thematic study based on the visual interpretation of satellite images in publicly available repositories (such as Google Earth Engine and Bing Maps) focusing on drylands. Results are reported at the...