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Workshop 90 - 1990
Periodic Assessments of Conservation
Time for a new assessmentTime for a new assessment
Entire Amazon
GIS TechnologyGeographic Information Systems
Smithsonian National Zoo Amazonia Science Gallery
Washington, DC
Amazonia at the National Zoological Park
Non-advocacy
Internet accessible
Continuously updating
“Comprehensive” dataNGOs, USGS, NOAA, NASA
http://AmazonGIS.orghttp://AmazonGIS.org
ArcIMS
Treaty on Amazon Cooperation
Examples of data received
National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
NOAA
View of orbits and paths of selected global weather satellitesRepresenting a group of the 521 currently in orbit
GOES satellite image: northeastern AmazonGOES satellites use infrared photography (fire)
US Geological SurveyUSGS
US Geological Survey
Global Digital Atlas for Central and South America
Political Boundaries
Guyana
Venezuela
Suriname
French Guiana
USGS
Guyana
Mining sites
USGS
Oil and gas fields
USGS
Air fields
USGS
Roads
USGS
Railroads
USGS
USGS
Large perennial rivers, lakes, and floodplainsWith hydrological network (rivers and tributaries)
Geologic age
USGS
Ecoregions
USGS
Population density
USGS
Environmental Systems Research Institute
ESRI
Age of Quaternary deposits
ESRI
Agricultural threat to landscape
ESRI
High range annual surface runoff
ESRI
High range January precipitation
ESRI
ESRI – Environmental Systems Research InstituteProtected areas vs. agricultural threats
ESRIAnnual precipitation in the Amazon
ESRIGeological tectonic data
Conservation InternationalCI
World Wide Fund for NatureWWF-US
WWF-US – World Wide Fund for Nature - USEcoregion classification
WWF-USSatellite imagery of local protected areas - Bolivia
WWF-US WWF priority regions of the Amazon
Smithsonian Institution
SI – Smithsonian InstitutionSpecies distribution data – Coleoptera diversity
Amazon GIS Program at the National ZooCompiling GIS data for Amazon conservation
http://AmazonGIS.org
Ryan Valdezvaldezra@nzp.si.edu
(202) 673-4941
(202) 673-0278 fax
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