Coffee & Viz - Tropical Forest Conservation: The View from 700 Kilometers
Friday, April 20, 2018
9:30am to 10:30am
This event is part of the Coffee and Viz event series.
East Kalimantan
When
Friday, April 20, 20189:30am to 10:30am
Where
Teaching and Visualization Lab, Hunt LibraryAbout This Event
Tropical deforestation is the second largest contributor of greenhouse emissions and has important impacts on global climate, biodiversity, and human well-being. Strategies for preserving tropical forests range from local-scale interventions, such as the establishment of protected areas, to national- and larger-scale economic (dis)incentives. New methods using time series of remotely sensed images allow us to map land-use change and evaluate the effectiveness of these various strategies. In this talk, Dr. Joshua Gray will show how this approach was applied to assess the impact of logging concessions in Indonesia.
Dr. Joshua Gray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State.
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Admission
Free and open to the public.