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Workshop 90 - 1990

Workshop 90 - 1990. Periodic Assessments of Conservation. Time for a new assessment. Entire Amazon. GIS Technology G eographic I nformation S ystems. Smithsonian National Zoo Amazonia Science Gallery Washington, DC. Amazonia at the National Zoological Park. Non-advocacy.

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Workshop 90 - 1990

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  1. Workshop 90 - 1990 Periodic Assessments of Conservation

  2. Time for a new assessment Entire Amazon GIS Technology Geographic Information Systems

  3. Smithsonian National Zoo Amazonia Science Gallery Washington, DC

  4. Amazonia at the National Zoological Park

  5. Non-advocacy Internet accessible Continuously updating “Comprehensive” data NGOs, USGS, NOAA, NASA

  6. ArcIMS http://AmazonGIS.org

  7. Treaty on Amazon Cooperation

  8. Examples of data received

  9. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration NOAA

  10. View of orbits and paths of selected global weather satellites Representing a group of the 521 currently in orbit

  11. GOES satellite image: northeastern Amazon GOES satellites use infrared photography (fire)

  12. US Geological Survey USGS

  13. US Geological Survey Global Digital Atlas for Central and South America

  14. Political Boundaries Guyana Venezuela Guyana French Guiana Suriname USGS

  15. Mining sites USGS

  16. Oil and gas fields USGS

  17. Air fields USGS

  18. Roads USGS

  19. Railroads USGS

  20. Large perennial rivers, lakes, and floodplains With hydrological network (rivers and tributaries) USGS

  21. Geologic age USGS

  22. Ecoregions USGS

  23. Population density USGS

  24. Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI

  25. Age of Quaternary deposits ESRI

  26. Agricultural threat to landscape ESRI

  27. High range annual surface runoff ESRI

  28. High range January precipitation ESRI

  29. ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute Protected areas vs. agricultural threats

  30. ESRI Annual precipitation in the Amazon

  31. ESRI Geological tectonic data

  32. Conservation International CI

  33. World Wide Fund for Nature WWF-US

  34. WWF-US – World Wide Fund for Nature - US Ecoregion classification

  35. WWF-US Satellite imagery of local protected areas - Bolivia

  36. WWF-US WWF priority regions of the Amazon

  37. Smithsonian Institution

  38. SI – Smithsonian Institution Species distribution data – Coleoptera diversity

  39. Amazon GIS Program at the National Zoo Compiling GIS data for Amazon conservation

  40. http://AmazonGIS.org Ryan Valdez valdezra@nzp.si.edu (202) 673-4941 (202) 673-0278 fax

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