Mapping Global Deforestation

Since the twelvemonth 2000 the globe has lost to a greater extent than than 500 1000000 acres of forest. Global Forest Watch is a novel Google Map from the World Resources Institute in addition to over xl other global partners designed to map the world's wood coverage in addition to loss.

Global Forest Watch is attempting to constitute a global wood monitoring network. The launch of this novel map is business office of an inaugural to furnish the tools for anyone to explore wood loss in addition to wood attain across the globe. The map includes a release of layers, including wood embrace in addition to loss since 2000, worldwide tree meridian data, tropical wood carbon stocks in addition to information most global wood use.

The map also includes links to forest-related stories. The links to the stories are embedded on the map at specific locations in addition to the stories include photos, video, in addition to explanatory text.

Mapping The Anthropocene

Welcome to the Anthropocene explores the final result of the human race on planet Earth. This Smithsonian created Esri Story Map presents a serial of maps demonstrating the influence of human action on the planet as well as too explores around of the solutions beingness developed to examine as well as re-shape the means nosotros interact alongside the Earth.

This narrative map is inwards ii distinct halves. The start purpose of the storey map explores the final result of the human race on planet public yesteryear mapping population density, the per centum of province surface nether human province management, the per centum of province given over to agriculture, the worldwide devastation of forests as well as animate beingness extinction rates.

The minute one-half of Welcome to the Anthropocene explores around of the approaches beingness undertaken to practise a sustainable means of life on public inwards cities inwards the USA. These examples include bike friendly cities, the tillage of rooftop vegetation, H2O desalination, greenish storm-water efforts as well as other sustainable projects.

Mapping Agricultural Landuse

One of my favorite maps from concluding yr was Bert Spaan's Netherland's Building Age Map. His map, created for the Waag website, visualized the historic catamenia of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings inwards the Netherlands.

All of the buildings inwards the Netherlands are colored on the map past times their historic catamenia of construction. You tin fifty-fifty click on whatsoever of the nearly ten 1000000 buildings to thought their exact yr of construction. When y'all conduct a edifice on the map y'all tin besides thought details close its solid reason surface area together with function.


Bert Spaan has instantly created roughly other map for Waag, which visualizes rural solid reason utilisation inwards the Netherlands afterward World War II. Mansholt, Landscape inwards Perspective is a even out map which explores how the rural landscape inwards the Netherlands changed during Sicco Mansholt's term equally Minister for Agriculture.

Sicco Mansholt was a Dutch pol who became Minister of Agriculture afterward the Second World War. While Minister of Agriculture Mansholt revolutionized agriculture inwards the Netherlands together with initiated solid reason reclamation inwards many areas of the country.

As y'all progress through the even out of Mansholt's initiatives equally Minister of Agriculture y'all tin thought maps of roughly of the rural landscapes which saw dramatic alter nether his term of office. The maps include a solid reason utilisation layer which let y'all to thought the agricultural or recreational utilisation for each packet of land. The solid reason parcels on the map are colored to betoken the type of crop which they are used for.