Repost from Ecogeek.org
A new online technology from Google called Google Earth Engine allows scientists and researchers to track environmental changes by analyzing 25 years worth of images from the LANDSAT satellite, the longest continually orbiting satellite on earth.
The new project, which will be posted online for free, was introduced at the COP16 talks in Cancun last week and will include applications that monitor and measure deforestation, land use trends, water resources and more. In honor of the conference's location, the first major creation of Google Earth Engine is the most comprehensive scale map of Mexico's forest and water resources to date.
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1391/google-earth-engine-tracks-global-environmental-changes.html;_ylt=Ava_Vf._v0lrBiW2bUbTkOqIV8cX
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