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XINGU PROJECT in Brazil // Brazil

ICV is committed to promoting environmental conservation and sustainable development in the Southern Amazon region. ICV main focus of action is on tackling illegal deforestation and forest degradation and restoring environmental quality through landscape planning and the recuperation of degraded forest areas.
ICV approach integrates monitoring and spatial analysis through remote sensing and GIS techniques, intensive field work, dialogue with relevant stakeholders at the local and regional levels and participation in public environmental policies.
In this context, the satellite data will be used in order to:
1) establish a new and detailed diagnosis of vegetation cover and riparian forest degradation of the Manissauá-Missu and Suia-Missu water catchments;
2) develop and apply a methodology to monitor the recovery of degraded areas at a pilot project level.

EDITORIAL

Spot the impacts, engage in action.

The worldwide mobilization and awareness about climate change is now rapidly rising, spreading among all communities whether scientific, civil, governmental, nongovernmental or business. Faced with this unique challenge, satellite imagery brings the coverage, resolution and agility that is needed to assess and understand the climate change impacts and to prepare, measure and manage adapting strategies.

The Earth Observation industry is rich of more than 30 years of experience and cooperation with users, and environmental organizations, not withstanding its close partnership with the GIS, and more recently, web industries. Therefore, in this context of urgency, there is little doubt that the Earth observation industry and its partners are among the few that can best help both scientifically and practically, with networks and know-how that transcend borders and specialties.

Well aware of the climate change urgency as well as of their own corporate responsibility, Spot Image, together with some key players of the Earth Observation and geographic information industries, has started the Planet Action initiative in June 2007. This initiative will develop in the coming years as an open and non-profit program that fosters and supports local projects which link observations of climate change and local action.

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