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[http://www.earthpov.com '''Earth Point of View --- www.earthpov.com''']
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[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''Planet Citizen --- www.planetcitizen.org''' / '''www.planetcitizens.net''']
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[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''Thin Blue Layer --- www.thinbluelayer.com'''] / [https://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''Environmental Security''']
[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''''Thin Blue Layer --- www.thinbluelayer.com'''''] / [https://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security''''']


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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene Welcome to the Anthropocene]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene '''''You are the 'Anthropocene Era'''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth Virtual Earth]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs '''''Earth Science, Vital Signs''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs Earth Science, Vital Signs]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now '''''Earth Right Now''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now Earth Right Now]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360 '''''#Earth360''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360 #Earth360]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''"Blue Marble" Collection''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection "Blue Marble" Collection]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System '''''ECO Operating System, Parts 1, 2 & 3'''''] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part1.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part2.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part3.pdf]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System ECO Operating System, Parts 1, 2 & 3] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part1.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part2.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part3.pdf]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg '''''The beginning of the modern US environmental era, foundation of forward-looking law''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg The beginning of the US environmental era, foundation of forward-looking law]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''''New Definitions of National & Global Security''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Why_Climate_Change_Matters-World_Bank_Program World Bank Climate Change Programs]  
* [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''StratDem - Environmental Security''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security New Definitions of National & Global Security]
* [http://strategicdemands.com/stratdem-factoid-re-road-security/ '''''StratDem - Road to Security: Energy''''']


* [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ StratDem - Environmental Security]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV Corridors - Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles''''']


* [http://strategicdemands.com/stratdem-factoid-re-road-security/ StratDem - Road to Security: Energy]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth '''''Virtual Earth''''']
:* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg '''''Google Earth Outreach''''']
:* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch '''''Global Fishing Watch'''''] ○ [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/gEGAkFJvXvX '''''About Rebecca''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles EV Corridors - Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''''From Up Here It Is Surprisingly Obvious Our World Is One Connected System''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Weather_-_Global_Forecast_System_Visualized Weather, Global Forecast System Visualized]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''Look At How Thin Our Atmosphere Is''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg Google Earth Outreach]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer '''''Thin Blue Layer -- www.thinbluelayer.com''''']  
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch Global Fishing Watch] ○ [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/gEGAkFJvXvX About Rebecca]
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg From Up Here It Is Surprisingly Obvious Our World Is One Connected System]
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is Look At How Thin Our Atmosphere Is]
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer Thin Blue Layer]  


* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ StratDem - The "Thin Blue Layer" Atmosphere That Protects]  
* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ StratDem - The "Thin Blue Layer" Atmosphere That Protects]  


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg A 12 minute drive up at 60 MPH]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg '''''A 12 minute drive up at 60 MPH''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/IPCC_Report_Nov_2014 IPCC Synthesis Report]
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Divestment_from_fossil_fuels Divestment from fossil fuels]
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:People_Climate_March_Sept._21st_Sunday_afternoon_m2.jpg Peoples Climate March]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California,_Plastic_Bag_Ban California, Plastic Bag Ban]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/IPCC_Report_Nov_2014 '''''IPCC Climate Change Synthesis Report/2014''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future California Out in Front in a Green Future]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Divestment_from_fossil_fuels '''''Divestment from fossil fuels''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS Where Are You? Pictures from ISS]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:People_Climate_March_Sept._21st_Sunday_afternoon_m2.jpg '''''Peoples Climate March''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 The OCO-2 Mission: History-making]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future '''''California Out in Front in a Green Future''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/%22GreenLinks%22 GreenLinks - Networking]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS Where Are You? '''''Pictures from ISS''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space Earth Science Research from Space]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''''The OCO-2 Mission: History-making''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space "New Space": Earth Science]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/%22GreenLinks%22 '''''GreenLinks - Green Networking with GreenPolicy360''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-satellites - "New Space": Low-cost Earth Imaging]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''''Earth Science Research from Space''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly Planet Labs Doves Fly]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space '''''"New Space": Earth Science''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In NASA Earth Sciences]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-satellites - '''''"New Space": Low-cost Earth Imaging''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ground_Truth "Ground Truth"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Planet Labs Doves Fly''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg Isn't It Time We Measure?]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg '''''Isn't It Time We Measure?''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg You can manage only what you can measure]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg '''''You can manage only what you can measure''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_imaging.jpg Earth Imaging]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_imaging.jpg '''''Earth Imaging''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation Sea-level Rise and Mitigation]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation '''''Sea-level Rise and Mitigation''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Time_for_a_Price_on_Carbon Time for a Price on Carbon]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Time_for_a_Price_on_Carbon '''''Time for a Price on Carbon''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting Environmental Full-Cost Accounting]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting '''''Environmental Full-Cost Accounting''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Triple_Bottom_Line Sustainability Policies, Triple Bottom Line]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Triple_Bottom_Line '''''Sustainability Policies, Triple Bottom Line''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Natural_Capital Natural Capital]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Natural_Capital '''''Natural Capital''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction Extinction - Loss of Diversity]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction '''''Extinction - Loss of Diversity''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rights_of_Nature_EarthLaw Rights of Nature]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rights_of_Nature_EarthLaw '''''Rights of Nature''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/C40_Cities_Climate_Leadership_Group C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/C40_Cities_Climate_Leadership_Group '''''C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture Alternative Agriculture]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture '''''Alternative Agriculture''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy Climate Policy]  
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy '''''Climate Policy''''']  


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth Hello Earth]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']





Revision as of 14:45, 20 February 2016

Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages












Continuing as GreenPolicy360 "Planet Citizens, Planet Scientist", we look at 'ocean forests' with perspective and need for interactive assistance'

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Help with the Kelp, Join in -- Work as a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist to keep the Ocean healthy -- http://www.floatingforests.org/

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Take a look at the newly launched Floating Forest Project -- and request for help from planet citizens who are willing to volunteer as planet scientists.

Here's the invitation from the Floating Forest website:

Citizen scientists are recruited via the Internet and are given instructions in how to hunt for giant kelp via satellite imagery.

They (you) are then given Landsat images and asked to outline any giant kelp patches that they find.

Findings are crosschecked with those from other citizen scientists and then passed to the Floating Forest science team for verification.

The size and location of these forests are catalogued and used to study global kelp trends.

As of January 11, 2015, more than 3,400 citizen scientists had joined up to look for kelp in 328,000 Landsat images...

GreenPolicy believes this is a planetary moment to jump, do it, sign up, help out!

Put a toe in first, test the waters (the water's fine) -- it could be time to become a "planet citizen, planet scientist"

Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat

Origin of Floating Forests Project

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Landsat 8 detects near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot & monitor offshore kelp forests (NASA Earth Observatory image)

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"Kelp are the redwoods of the sea..." The world’s largest marine plants, they regularly grow up to 35 meters (115 feet) tall.

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Floating Forests

Help with the Kelp, Join in -- be a Be a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist -- http://www.floatingforests.org/

Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat

Origin of Floating Forests Project

Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist

Kyle Cavanaugh had an idea. “These forests change so rapidly and on a variety of different time scales—months to years to decades—so we needed a long record with consistent, repeated observations,” Cavanaugh said. He devised a method to use Landsat satellite data to monitor kelp forests.

A few things made Landsat an obvious resource. Since the 1970s, the satellites have had a regular collection schedule (twice monthly). Their data and images are managed by the U.S. Geological Survey and are reliably stored in an archive that dates back more than forty years. And Landsat’s images are calibrated, or standardized, across different generations of satellites, making it possible to compare data collected across several decades...

Landsat measures the energy reflected and emitted from Earth at many different wavelengths. By knowing how features on Earth reflect or absorb energy at certain wavelengths, scientists can map and measure changes to the surface. The most important feature for the kelp researchers is Landsat’s near-infrared band, which measures wavelengths of light that are just outside our visual range. Healthy vegetation strongly reflects near-infrared energy, so this band is often used in plant studies. Also, water absorbs a lot of near-infrared energy and reflects little, making the band particularly good for mapping boundaries between land and water.

“The near-infrared is key for identifying kelp from surrounding water,” Cavanaugh explained. “Like other types of photosynthesizing vegetation, giant kelp have high reflectance in the near infrared. This makes the kelp canopy really stand out from the surrounding water.”

After a recent meeting on kelp forests and climate change, researchers Byrnes, Cavanaugh, and other colleagues set out to consolidate all of the available kelp forest data from around the world. They wanted to take a step toward understanding how climate change is affecting kelp globally, but they quickly discovered they had a sparse patchwork of information.

Byrnes was struck with a thought. They had used Landsat to expand their studies across time, so why not use Landsat to expand their studies around the world? Could Landsat be used to establish global trends in kelp forest extent? The answer was yes, but the problem was eyeballs.

Unlike research on terrestrial vegetation—which uses Landsat data and powerful computer processing arrays to make worldwide calculations—distinguishing kelp forests requires manual interpretation. While kelp forests pop out to the human eye in near-infrared imagery, computers looking at the data numerically can confuse kelp patches with land vegetation. Programs and coded logic that separate aquatic vegetation from land vegetation can be confounded by things like clouds, sunglint, and sea foam...

"Automated classification methods just don’t produce acceptable levels of accuracy..."

Byrnes and Cavanaugh put together a science team and joined with Zooniverse, a group that connects professional scientists with citizen scientists in order to help analyze large amounts of data. The result was the Floating Forests project.

https://www.zooniverse.org/#climate

https://www.zooniverse.org/#nature

The Floating Forest concept is all about getting more eyeballs on Landsat imagery. Citizen scientists—recruited via the Internet—are instructed in how to hunt for giant kelp in satellite imagery. They are then given Landsat images and asked to outline any giant kelp patches that they find. Their findings are crosschecked with those from other citizen scientists and then passed to the science team for verification. The size and location of these forests are catalogued and used to study global kelp trends.

Join in!


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Earth Point of View --- www.earthpov.com

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