Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is powerful library used by major GIS software from QGIS, ArcGIS, Udig even statistical software like R. It has a powerful set of command line tools and interface that can be accessed from variety of programming languages like C++, Java, Python, Perl, C# and Ruby.
When using GDAL on Linux ...
Written by Biodiversity, Deforestation.
on Feb. 25, 2014 inLast update on Feb. 25, 2014.
**Forest and Agroforest Mosaics of the Western Ghats**
Agroforesty systems (coffee, tea, rubber, pepper, arecanut, cardamom) shape much of the landscape of the Western Ghats, India, and the mountain range has been identified as a biodiversity hotspot (Conservation International 2008; Myers et al. 2000). Before the development of large scale commercial cultivation under British colonial ...
Written by Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation.
on Feb. 10, 2014 inLast update on Feb. 24, 2014.
The Virunga landscape has one of the greatest diversities of habitats globally within about 790 thousand hectares. Thousands of hippopotamuses and elephants live in the park's rivers and its mountains are a critical area for the survival of the mountain and lowland gorillas. However, these habitats have undergone dramatic changes in land cover and ...
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on Jan. 24, 2014 .Last update on Jan. 28, 2014.
We are in the process of releasing v3 of our GeoPortal - the Landscapes Portal. The Landscapes Portal is being released under a new domain name: http://landscapeportal.org. Current users are being migrated to the new site and will be receiving emails where they are asked to verify their email addresses.
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Written by Land Degradation, New maps, Soil Mapping.
on Jan. 16, 2014 inLast update on March 19, 2014.
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) was developed at the World Agroforestry Centre for landscape level assessments and studies of carbon dynamics, vegetation changes, soil functional properties and soil hydrological properties. The LDSF has been implemented in more than 20 countries in Africa to date, including the CIAT-led [Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS)]("http://worldagroforestry ...