The Fire Alert System and FIRMS
are two examples of applications that harness the power of satellites
to deliver key data to conservation managers. Developed by
Madagascar's
Ministry of Environment, the International Resources Group and
Conservation International using data from the University of Maryland
and NASA, the Fire Alert System enables near real-time monitoring of
fires anywhere on the island of Madagascar, a hotspot of biological
diversity. The system, which sends subscribers regular email alerts on
newly detected burning, will eventually be expanded to include fire
risk and related activities like road building and illegal logging.
FIRMS is a global fire monitoring and alert system for protected
areas;
it delivers MODIS active fire data and imagery to natural resource
managers in a range of easy-to-use formats.
We have not maintained total
response data over the history of the Directions Magazine poll,
but we believe this is the largest number of responses to an
individual
poll in its history. Some very conclusive results in the
current poll - with 420 participants to date, two-thirds are
supplying, or would supply, map updates to the OpenStreetMap database. The
new poll asks, "How often do you use mapping interfaces to the news?"
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