http://www.nasa.gov/content/exploring-the-worlds-protected-areas-from-space/#.VGriwvmUehF
http://www.nasa.gov/content/exploring-the-worlds-protected-areas-from-space/#.VGriwvmUehF
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-image-exploring-world-areas-space.html
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-image-exploring-world-areas-space.html
WASHINGTON: From the astonishing
river patterns along the Bay of Bengal
to weaving waterways of the
Sundarbans in Bangladesh, NASA
has revealed some stunning images
of the Earth’s last untouched sanctuaries
in a new book.
Titled “Sanctuary: Exploring the
World’s Protected Areas from
Space”, the book highlights how the
view from space is being used to
protect some of the world’s most
interesting and threatened places.
Uniting satellite imagery with
nature photography, descriptions
of conservation projects and comments
from park leaders and conservationists,
“Sanctuary”
illustrates the contributions remote
sensing is making to reaching
conservation goals, responding to
climate change, and improving human
health and well-being, the US
space agency said in a statement.
“NASA and numerous other
space agency partners from around
the globe have used this view from
space to make incredible scientific
advances in our understanding of
how our planet works,” said NASA
administrator Charles Bolden in a
foreword.
“As a result, we can now better
gauge the impact of human activity
on our environment and measure
how and why our atmosphere,
oceans, and land are changing,” he
added.
There are about 209,000 protected
areas worldwide, covering 14
percent of the planet’s land, 11 percent
of coastal areas and 3.6 percent
of the world’s oceans.
Protected areas featured in
“Sanctuary” include Hawaii’s Papaphanaumokuakea
Marine National
Monument, New Zealand’s Mount
Egmont National Park, the weaving
waterways of the Sundarbans in
Bangladesh and the Great Barrier
Reef in Australia, among others.
Published by the Institute for
Global Environmental Strategies
(Arlington, Virginia) with support
from NASA, the book was released
at the 2014 World Parks Congress
in Sydney, Australia. It is available
as free PDF download at NASA website.
IANS
http://www.nasa.gov/content/exploring-the-worlds-protected-areas-from-space/#.VGriwvmUehF
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-image-exploring-world-areas-space.html
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-image-exploring-world-areas-space.html
WASHINGTON: From the astonishing
river patterns along the Bay of Bengal
to weaving waterways of the
Sundarbans in Bangladesh, NASA
has revealed some stunning images
of the Earth’s last untouched sanctuaries
in a new book.
Titled “Sanctuary: Exploring the
World’s Protected Areas from
Space”, the book highlights how the
view from space is being used to
protect some of the world’s most
interesting and threatened places.
Uniting satellite imagery with
nature photography, descriptions
of conservation projects and comments
from park leaders and conservationists,
“Sanctuary”
illustrates the contributions remote
sensing is making to reaching
conservation goals, responding to
climate change, and improving human
health and well-being, the US
space agency said in a statement.
“NASA and numerous other
space agency partners from around
the globe have used this view from
space to make incredible scientific
advances in our understanding of
how our planet works,” said NASA
administrator Charles Bolden in a
foreword.
“As a result, we can now better
gauge the impact of human activity
on our environment and measure
how and why our atmosphere,
oceans, and land are changing,” he
added.
There are about 209,000 protected
areas worldwide, covering 14
percent of the planet’s land, 11 percent
of coastal areas and 3.6 percent
of the world’s oceans.
Protected areas featured in
“Sanctuary” include Hawaii’s Papaphanaumokuakea
Marine National
Monument, New Zealand’s Mount
Egmont National Park, the weaving
waterways of the Sundarbans in
Bangladesh and the Great Barrier
Reef in Australia, among others.
Published by the Institute for
Global Environmental Strategies
(Arlington, Virginia) with support
from NASA, the book was released
at the 2014 World Parks Congress
in Sydney, Australia. It is available
as free PDF download at NASA website.
IANS
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