I thought I’d throw a serious post up since it has been awhile. This one is via AFP article ‘China, Brazil give Africa free satellite land images‘ on 29 November.
Last Wednesday at a conference in South Africa, China and Brazil announced that it would provide free imagery to African countries to help with environmental monitoring of sub-tropical areas. The announcement mentioned the creation of a number of ground stations in Africa to receive and process the satellite data. China and Brazil hope that African countries use the information to planning and resource management for a better world.
One thought would be the use of OpenAerialMap to share the data among the countries in the program. If China and Brazil are really interested in global sustainability and sharing data for environmental resource management, then you would think that they would want to provide the data to the widest user group possible. So, why not process it into OpenAerialMap?
