Rapid Assessment Of Land Use Change In and Around Protected Areas (RALUCIAPA)

Dr Mark Mulligan, UNEP-WCMC

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/protected%5Fareas/raluciapa/

RALUCIAPA (Rapid Assessment Of Land Use Change In and Around Protected Areas) does as it says on the tin and is a collaboration between KCL (Kings College London) and UNEP-WCMC (the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre). It is a tool to assist in conservation monitoring and prioritisation and shows protected areas in green. In red it shows areas deforested between 2000 (when most of the NASA imagery used in Google Earth/Maps was taken) and 2005, based on the MODIS VCF data.

This work in progress uses data from NASA, The University of Maryland, and the World Database on Protected Areas.

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Open in Google Earth