Citizen Mapping For The Environment

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel crowd-sourced tool plans to monitor deforestation together with other environmental harm caused to the planet some the world. Map for Environment uses OpenStreetMap mapping tools alongside satellite imagery of known logging, industrial agriculture, dam, together with fracking locations to attention map how these industries are effecting the environment.

Most importantly - You Can Help! If yous log-in to Map for Environment alongside an OpenStreetMap concern human relationship yous tin get to attention map logging roads, the spread of industrial agriculture, dams together with fracking sites.

Each of these 4 industrial activities convey their ain assort citizen mapping project. For example, if yous log-in to the Logging Roads project, yous tin get mapping to attention monitor the spread of logging roads inwards the Congo Basin. You volition survive shown a serial of historical satellite imagery of the same location. Logging roads are identified on the satellite imagery. All yous necessitate to create is pose the appointment when the logging route kickoff appears on the satellite imagery.

You tin detect the huge spread of logging roads inwards the Congo Basin on an animated Logging Roads map. This map uses historical satellite imagery to demo the spread of logging roads inwards the Congo Basin over recent years. By contributing to the Logging Roads projection yous volition attention to brand this map to a greater extent than accurate.