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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">During these days of COP24 in Katowice, I came across updates on Open Foris which is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">flexible and efficient data collection, analysis
and reporting for environmental monitoring. Details at </span><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)"><a href="http://openforis.org" id="LPlnk569540" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://openforis.org</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:#e4af0a"><a href="http://openforis.org" id="LPlnk962189" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"></a></span><span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Collect Earth provides augmented visual interpretation for land monitoring
</span><span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(228,175,10)"><a href="http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-earth.html" id="LPlnk826388" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="text-align:center" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-earth.html</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(228,175,10)"><a href="http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-earth.html" id="LPlnk853860" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="text-align:center" previewremoved="true"></a></span><span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Collect
Mobile provides intuitive data collection and validation in the field </span><span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(228,175,10)"><a href="http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-mobile.html" id="LPlnk469740" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="text-align:center" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-mobile.html</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(228,175,10)"><a href="http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-mobile.html" id="LPlnk448231" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="text-align:center" previewremoved="true"></a></span><span style="text-align:center; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yesterday,
NASA and FAO has launched next-generation geospatial tool to to track land-use and landscape changes anywhere at
</span><span style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Katowice, Poland. Details at
<b> </b></span></span><a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1173756/icode/" id="LPlnk528410" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="text-align:center" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1173756/icode/</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">GIS is key for understanding and protecting natural resource commons (forests, water resources etc). Geotechnologies and open data will play a key role to guide policy and improve conservation efforts around the world. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Spatial
Education is </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">key for tackling Global Warming. We also need to build more synergies with initiatives like UNCBD, UNFCC [1] [2] especially on the education and capacity development aspects [2].</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Suchith</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545">[1] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/we-need-to-speak-for-the-voiceless-to-improve-conservation-efforts-around-the-world/" id="LPlnk228602" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
<span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/we-need-to-speak-for-the-voiceless-to-improve-conservation-efforts-around-the-world/</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:#454545"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">[2] </span><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gis-at-schools/" id="LPlnk479773" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:#e4af0a"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gis-at-schools/</span></span></a></span><br>
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