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Workshop 90 - 1990 Periodic Assessments of Conservation
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Time for a new assessment Entire Amazon GIS Technology Geographic Information Systems
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Smithsonian National Zoo Amazonia Science Gallery Washington, DC
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Amazonia at the National Zoological Park
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Non-advocacy Internet accessible Continuously updating “Comprehensive” data NGOs, USGS, NOAA, NASA
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http://AmazonGIS.org ArcIMS
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Treaty on Amazon Cooperation
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Examples of data received
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National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration NOAA
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View of orbits and paths of selected global weather satellites Representing a group of the 521 currently in orbit
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GOES satellite image: northeastern Amazon GOES satellites use infrared photography ( fire )
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US Geological Survey USGS
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US Geological Survey Global Digital Atlas for Central and South America
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Political Boundaries Guyana Venezuela Suriname French Guiana USGS Guyana
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Mining sites USGS
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Oil and gas fields USGS
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Air fields USGS
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Roads USGS
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Railroads USGS
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Large perennial rivers, lakes, and floodplains With hydrological network (rivers and tributaries)
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Geologic age USGS
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Ecoregions USGS
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Population density USGS
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Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI
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Age of Quaternary deposits ESRI
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Agricultural threat to landscape ESRI
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High range annual surface runoff ESRI
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High range January precipitation ESRI
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ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute Protected areas vs. agricultural threats
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ESRI Annual precipitation in the Amazon
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ESRI Geological tectonic data
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Conservation International CI
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World Wide Fund for Nature WWF-US
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WWF-US – World Wide Fund for Nature - US Ecoregion classification
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WWF-US Satellite imagery of local protected areas - Bolivia
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WWF-US WWF priority regions of the Amazon
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Smithsonian Institution
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SI – Smithsonian Institution Species distribution data – Coleoptera diversity
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Amazon GIS Program at the National Zoo Compiling GIS data for Amazon conservation
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http://AmazonGIS.org Ryan Valdez valdezra@nzp.si.edu (202) 673-4941 (202) 673-0278 fax
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