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Satellite data can help predict which of the worlds tropical forests are in trouble
2016-09-06 14:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Digital Trends: Satellites are great for communication, weather forecasting, and a number of other activities. Now there`s one application we havent previously come across - building up heat maps of the worlds tropical forests. When combined with some neat statistical tools, they can predict regions that might be in trouble. Thats the goal of a research project at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. It was recently described in a paper for the journal Nature Climate Change, entitled Remotely sensed...
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