Cutting-edge conservation: Open data protects resources

lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-24

Summary:

"Conservationists now have access to a trove of high-quality, high-resolution data and images for the nearly 100,000 square miles of land comprising the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and surrounding counties since conservation and data experts from the Chesapeake Conservancy released it earlier this month.

Called the Chesapeake Bay High-resolution Land Cover Project, this information is open data – meaning it is free to download and completely accessible to the public. By making it free to access and download, the experts at the Chesapeake Conservancy have removed a significant barrier to effective land conservation: finding detailed land cover data."

Link:

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/life/2016/12/23/cutting-edge-conservation-open-data-protects-resources/95661072/

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Tags:

oa.repositories oa.data

Date tagged:

12/24/2016, 14:11

Date published:

12/24/2016, 09:11