In the Media
Centers track global deforestation
February 22, 2012
OPB news
The Ashland-based Geos Institute and the Conservation Biology Institute in Corvallis are teaming up to create an online center to track deforestation around the world. Known as the Global Forest Information Center, it will be on the Internet in a data-sharing system known as Data Basin — databasin.org — developed by the CBI in 2010.
The information, including maps, is expected to be available to policy makers, land managers and the public beginning this fall. Plans call for branching out beyond the Northwest forests to include intact forests worldwide within three years.
“The main purpose of the center is to tap into the information revolution to send out alarm bells about the world’s rapidly dwindling intact forests while there is still time to protect these irreplaceable gems,” said Dominick DellaSala, a forest ecologist who is the chief scientist as well as president of the Geos Institute.
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Keywords: global deforestation, mapping, remote sensing