Workshop Periodic Assessments of Conservation
Time for a new assessment Entire Amazon GIS Technology Geographic Information Systems
Smithsonian National Zoo Amazonia Science Gallery Washington, DC
Amazonia at the National Zoological Park
Non-advocacy Internet accessible Continuously updating “Comprehensive” data NGOs, USGS, NOAA, NASA
ArcIMS
Treaty on Amazon Cooperation
Examples of data received
National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration NOAA
View of orbits and paths of selected global weather satellites Representing a group of the 521 currently in orbit
GOES satellite image: northeastern Amazon GOES satellites use infrared photography ( fire )
US Geological Survey USGS
US Geological Survey Global Digital Atlas for Central and South America
Political Boundaries Guyana Venezuela Suriname French Guiana USGS Guyana
Mining sites USGS
Oil and gas fields USGS
Air fields USGS
Roads USGS
Railroads USGS
Large perennial rivers, lakes, and floodplains With hydrological network (rivers and tributaries)
Geologic age USGS
Ecoregions USGS
Population density USGS
Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI
Age of Quaternary deposits ESRI
Agricultural threat to landscape ESRI
High range annual surface runoff ESRI
High range January precipitation ESRI
ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute Protected areas vs. agricultural threats
ESRI Annual precipitation in the Amazon
ESRI Geological tectonic data
Conservation International CI
World Wide Fund for Nature WWF-US
WWF-US – World Wide Fund for Nature - US Ecoregion classification
WWF-US Satellite imagery of local protected areas - Bolivia
WWF-US WWF priority regions of the Amazon
Smithsonian Institution
SI – Smithsonian Institution Species distribution data – Coleoptera diversity
Amazon GIS Program at the National Zoo Compiling GIS data for Amazon conservation
Ryan Valdez (202) (202) fax