Ghana Chooses Mapping Platform for Cocoa Farming Deforestation Initiative

Ghana Chooses Mapping Platform for Cocoa Farming Deforestation Initiative

Forestry Commission of Ghana (FCG) is stepping up its commitment to help end deforestation due to cocoa farming by adopting the Ecometrica mapping platform in its production and delivery of maps and forest monitoring information, which are at the heart of the Cocoa & Forests Initiative Frameworks for Action (CFI), agreed by Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference.

Mapping the Land Between the Tides

Mapping the Land Between the Tides

Thanks to the Moon, the Sun and gravity, the place where the land meets the sea is not a fixed line. What we see on a map is just a representation of where mean sea level is found, and the coast of any landmass is really a moving target between low and high tides.

Solar-Powered China

Solar-Powered China

The largest solar park in the world now, seen in this Landsat 8 image collected in April 2019, stands in China's northwestern Ningxia province.

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