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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Nicaragua, Bolivia

    Este manual tiene como objetivo familiarizar a los usuarios de la herramienta FAO-ASIS País con la conversión de datos del Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG) a los formatos adecuados para alimentar la herramienta.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Mozambique, Bangladesh, United States of America, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, Chile, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Portugal, Ireland, Canada, Argentina, United Kingdom, Italy, Sri Lanka, Mexico, New Zealand

    This new guide describes the application of spatial technology to improve disaster risk management (DRM) within the aquaculture sector. DRM requires interrelated actions and activities to ensure early warning, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery for a wide range of natural, technological and complex disasters that can impact aquaculture operations and livelihoods.<p></p><p></p>Spatial technology refers to systems and tools that acquire, manage and analyse data that have geographic context.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2018
    France, Belgium, United States of America, Philippines, Canada, Nicaragua, Bulgaria, Madagascar, Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands, Venezuela, New Zealand, Brazil, Ghana

    La première édition de la Base de référence mondiale pour les ressources en sols (WRB) a été publiée lors du 16ème Congrès Mondial de la Science du Sol à Montpellier en 1998. Lors du même événement, elle fut adoptée comme système de corrélation des sols et de communication internationale de l'Union Internationale des Sciences du Sol (IUSS). La seconde édition de la WRB a été publiée au 18ème Congrès Mondial à Philadelphie en 2006.<p></p>Après huit années de tests intensifs et de collectes de données dans le monde entier, la troisième édition de la WRB est publiée en 2014.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Mozambique, Bangladesh, United States of America, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, Chile, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Portugal, Ireland, Canada, Argentina, United Kingdom, Italy, Sri Lanka, Mexico, New Zealand

    This new guide describes the application of spatial technology to improve disaster risk management (DRM) within the aquaculture sector. DRM requires interrelated actions and activities to ensure early warning, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery for a wide range of natural, technological and complex disasters that can impact aquaculture operations and livelihoods. <p></p>Spatial technology refers to systems and tools that acquire, manage and analyse data that have geographic context.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2018
    France, United States of America, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Chile, Australia, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Netherlands, Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Ghana

    La tercera edición de la WRB incorpora, en el nuevo capítulo 2, elementos que permiten generar nombres taxonómicos mucho más informativos que llevan a deducir con facilidad la génesis y funciones de los suelos. Por otro lado, esta nueva versión de la WRB facilita la elaboración de leyendas de mapas a varias escalas para uso multifinalitario.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Colombia, Montenegro, Uruguay, Argentina

    Este estudio ha tenido como eje identificar, localizar y cuantificar la disponibilidad y el consumo de los recursos biomásicos en la provincia de Buenos <p></p>Aires, con el fin de promover el desarrollo de la energía renovable. En este sentido y siguiendo criterios de sustentabilidad, se realizó un diagnóstico<p></p>provincial de la oferta y la demanda de combustibles derivados de la biomasa y se obtuvo un balance bioenergético a nivel provincial, que fue desagregado<p></p>a nivel departamental y de radio censal.

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    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2018
    Bangladesh, United States of America, Germany, China, Italy, Indonesia, Peru, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Norway

    This new Guide describes the application of spatial technology to improve disaster risk management (DRM) within the aquaculture sector. DRM requires interrelated activities to ensure prevention, preparedness (including early warning), response and recovery for a wide range of natural, technological and complex disasters that can impact aquaculture operations and livelihoods.<p></p>Spatial technology refers to systems and tools that acquire, manage and analyse data that have geographic context.

  8. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    October, 2018
    Ecuador

    OPEN FORIS Y SEPAL (Sistema de acceso de datos de observación de la tierra, procesamiento y análisis para el monitoreo de la superficie terrestre)<p></p>Innovador software de código abierto para ayudar a los países a medir, monitorear y reportar sobre los bosques y el uso de la tierra, que ofrece poder de cómputo y acceso sin parangón a datos satelitales pormenorizados y allana el camino para conseguir mejores planes de mitigación del cambio climático y políticas de uso de la tierra más informadas.<p></p><p></p>

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2016
    Luxembourg, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, Zambia, Peru, Italy

    Accurate and consistent information on forest area and forest area change is important given the reporting requirements for countries to access results based payments for REDD+ . Forest area change estimates usually provide data on the extent of human activity resulting in emissions (e.g. from deforestation) or removals (e.g. from afforestation), also called activity data (AD). A basic methodological approach to estimate greenhouse gas emissions and removals (IPCC, 2003), is to multiply AD with a coefficient that quantifies emissions per unit ‘activity’ (e.g.

  10. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, China, Tanzania, Cuba, Argentina, Senegal, Africa

    The present report gives the complete description of the preparation of a land use map and also the preparation of a national map of livestock intensity, needed as LUS input. The present method allows the preparation of a multi-country land use map in two weeks with the work of 13 experts, and is comparable to the continuous of 130 working days. Further to that, the LUS has been validated with the support of GIS consultants.

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