Imagery helps analyze trends in tropical biodiversity.(Clark Laboratories Inc., Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation )(Brief article)

From: GEO World | Date: June 1, 2007 | Copyright information

Clark Labs, Worcester, Mass., received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a system for analyzing time series of remotely sensed images to infer changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function. The result will be a protocol and software system that will permit scientists and conservationists to monitor ecosystem responses to a range of anthropogenic disturbances such as land-cover conversion and climate change.

"This grant makes possible not only the development of an early warning system to predict changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function, but ...

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