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Nature 437, 1232 (27 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/4371232c; Published online 26 October 2005
Internet forest-watchers a new force for conservation
Fernando Manuel Ramos1
- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Avenida dos Astronautas 1758, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
Your News in Brief story "Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins" (Nature 437, 307; 2005) made me wonder whether the time for a new conservationism is not already on the horizon. A time when the convergence of imaging and grid computing technologies, together with a policy of free access to catalogues of high-resolution Earth imagery, will make it possible to monitor selected patches of forest across the globe using the Internet.
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