This app, put together by 2017 Ecometrica Award Winner Beth Gillies, shows the potential ash fallout from an eruption by the Volcán de Colima, also known as Volcán de Fuego, one of the most active volcanos in Mexico and in North America. https://ashfalloutrisk.ourecosystem.com/interface/ In recent years there have been frequent temporary evacuations of nearby villagers due to threatening […]
This application looks at agricultural production across Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Chiapas in Southern Mexico. It includes data for maise, beans, sugar cane, plantains, mangos, oranges, coffee and henequen (agave). The application is managed by ECOSUR on the ECOSUR EO Lab. The EO Lab is a geospatial content sharing platform which enables businesses, […]
This application provides information about past vegetation coverage in the Amazon, Brazil. http://pastforest.inpe.ourecosystem.com/
This is a service of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil which aims to generate annual estimates of emissions of greenhouse gases by land cover change in Brazil in a spatially explicit way. http://inpe-em.inpe.ourecosystem.com/
This work investigates the production of urban space in the coastal city of Caraguatatuba, in Brazil, emphasising the residential distribution of social groups looking at a) its relationships with urban law and socio-demographic factors and b) its effects on how groups are differently exposed to risks. The data comes from a computer simulation model developed by INPE. […]
