Land Cover Mapping

Following the creation of the Paris Agreement, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) created the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT Project), [...]

Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) contributed to a fascinating mapping project described in a new post on the Google Earth and Earth Engine Medium page.  Google partnered with CIAT, [...]

Under international climate change agreements, countries must estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation. In cases of deforestation—when trees are cut and [...]

Imagine walking into the small wooden building that serves as the home and office of a tribal community leader in a remote village in Vietnam. One of the last things you might expect to see would [...]

Carbon markets are based on the premise that sources (greenhouse gas-emitting power plants, vehicles, farm animal waste) and sinks (greenhouse gas-absorbing forests, biogas digesters, healthy [...]

The Sustainable Orinoco Pact sponsored a one-day Initiatives Fair just outside of the region’s major city Villavicencio yesterday.  The event brought together several organizations and [...]

Decades of scientific research have been suggesting that humans accrue many positive benefits from nature, whether that nature be in an isolated preserve, in urban green space within the confines [...]

The Mekong River is one of the world’s great river systems, flowing 4,909 km through six countries: China, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The Mekong is divided into both the [...]

$180 billion USD. 8400 buildings. 1,381,000 acres. Nearly 8% of the State of California’s GDP. The numbers produced by wildfires are staggering. In 2015, the world experienced the strongest El [...]

In an increasingly populated, financially-strained, and ecologically-stressed world, scientists are facing mounting pressure to find quick answers to social and environmental challenges. But, In [...]