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- Writer, photographer, conservationist, activist.
I am a freelance writer who focuses on conservation, the environment, eco-tourism, and sustainable travel.
In addition, I spend my winters leading volunteer conservation crews on back-country work trips in Grand Canyon National Park, USA. (Join the fun at www.gcvolunteers.org)
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How Many Trees Do You Get?
Apparently, some people are using satellite images for more than finding their house on Google Earth.
Professor Nalini Nadkarni of The Evergreen State College took NASA's Earth imagery, parsed out the signature of trees (using the light reflected off them vs. other objects), applied some simple math, and what did she find: the Earth's tree-to-person ratio.
Based on her estimates, "in 2005, there were 400,246,300,201 (more or less) trees on our globe." According to 2007 census… Continue
Professor Nalini Nadkarni of The Evergreen State College took NASA's Earth imagery, parsed out the signature of trees (using the light reflected off them vs. other objects), applied some simple math, and what did she find: the Earth's tree-to-person ratio.
Based on her estimates, "in 2005, there were 400,246,300,201 (more or less) trees on our globe." According to 2007 census… Continue
Posted on November 12, 2008 at 10:02pm —
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