Monitoring National Forest Change In Cloudy Environments

One of the primary uses of satellite imagery for many applications is to monitor change across landscapes. Randomly scattered cloud across images is one an obvious nuisance that frustrates this process, and often analysts must resort to using manual interpretation and digitising to record changes. This issue can be overcome…

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National Forest Inventory on-going

-in keeping with the government’s strategic development plans for the forest sector  The Ministry of Natural Resources’ Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has commenced its National Forest Inventory (NFI). This is essential for forest management planning, concession allocation, and forest utilization.  The GFC legislation and the National Forest Policy require the…

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Gov’t to reforest 6,000 acres of mined-out lands -VP Jagdeo

– to mitigate carbon footprint Vice President, Hon. Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo says the Government will reforest 6,000 acres of mined-out land to help to mitigate Guyana’s carbon footprint. The Vice President made this disclosure during a press conference at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Friday, where he addressed criticism…

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