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Making waves in wetland conservation: Explore the outcomes and insights from Ramsar COP15, a premier global event on wetland protection and sustainability
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Un ambicioso proyecto internacional está usando transmisores satelitales para monitorear los viajes migratorios de ballenas francas australes, permitiendo entender sus sorprendentes patrones de desplazamiento en tiempo real. // An ambitious international project is using satellite tags to monitor the migratory journeys of southern right whales, allowing researchers to understand their surprising movement patterns in real time.
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Geospatial Group Reflections 2024-2025
Vance Russell
BACKGROUNDAuthors: @VAR1 @elsa @ahmedjunaid Starting in July 2024 and concluding in July 2025, Elsa Carla De Grandi of Fauna & Flora, Ahmed Junaid of SAVE THE FROGS...
18 July 2025
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PACE LAND DATA AND USER GROUP
Vance Russell
The Plankton Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem Observatory (PACE) has freely available hyperspectral land surface data available on Earth Engine. Add the repo in Earth Engine here and...
8 July 2025
Article
Fires in Serengeti and Masai Mara National Parks have burned massive areas this year. With Google Earth Engine, it's possible to quantify burn severity using the normalized burn ratio function, then calculate the total...
29 April 2025
Article
Modern GIS: Moving from Desktop to Cloud
Vance Russell
Modern GIS is open technology, scalable, and interoperable. How do you implement it? [Header image: kepler.gl]
12 March 2025
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Hansen Global Forest Change Dataset
Vance Russell
The deadtrees.earth dataset that Elsa shared earlier this week is an excellent, albeit grimly named dataset! Here's another for global forest forest change derived from Landsat imagery. Click the link at the bottom to...
11 March 2025
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Collaring elephants and post-release monitoring
Vance Russell
Kasi, Thanks for sharing the excellent blog on elephant collaring. The map at the end was interesting. Did you do further spatiotemporal analysis to show trends and...
29 January 2025
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Hi Folks,Here's a sneak preview of our book Conservation Finance: confinance.info. Feedback and sharing are welcome.Best,Vance
5 November 2024
Discussion
FOS Data Collection Tools
Vance Russell
Field season is over for most. How well did yours go? How did your field collection software work? I tested and reviewed three free and open-source data collection apps in the...
9 October 2024
Discussion
200 Basemaps with a couple lines of code
Vance Russell
Geospatial Wildlabbers,Opengeos, and QGIS are the gifts that keep on giving. It used to be that Arcgis Pro had the easiest basemaps to add to a project. I'm not so sure about that...
4 October 2024
Discussion
Rapid geospatial package install
Vance Russell
Want to install geospatial packages more quickly than conda? UV is a lightweight installation package that lets you rapidly install dozens of packages. Thank you to Quisheng Wu...
26 September 2024
Discussion
Monitoring on a Shoestring
Vance Russell
Monitoring may be the most written about but least implemented (properly) topic in conservation. It primarily comes down to three reasons: lack of 1) capacity; 2) funding; and 3)...
16 September 2024
Vance Russell commented on "How has the Funding & Finance group done?"