2. What are deforestaction and Earthwatchers
> Deforestaction is a project to involve students
all over the world into saving the (rain)forests
> Deforestaction was initiated by Willie Smits
> Earthwatchers is the social medium to let
students watch the rainforest and raise allerts
on illegal logging.
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4. How
> Social media
– great platform for collaboration of groups
– http://dfa.tigweb.org/
> Role of Earth observation: the eye in the sky
– Borneo is just to big to observe from the ground
> Human computation: our brains are really
good at pattern recognition
> Earthwatchers website supports
– viewing of imagery
– strong links to social networking: alert your
neighbours when something is happening
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9. When: happening now
>3d movie: An action movie (Rise of the eco warriors)
– http://www.facebook.com/groups/projectborneo/
> Pilot project proof of concept in Sintang, West
Kalimantan
– local executive power suppor, in-situ team
> Earthwatchers website is operational
– Data is coming in
> Students from Deforestaction will get their hexagons
– 3000 students in phase 1
> Pilot projects with data providers: Terrasar, COSMO-
Skymed, Envisat (appears dead though), DMCII
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10. Software
> Imagery and services in Windows Azure
Cloud: blob storage for imagery and services
> Earthwatchers code is Open source
> http://deforestaction.codeplex.com
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11. Components
> WCF Web Api
> Mapsui
> Geohex
> Dapper
> MapTiler
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12. Earthwatchers Web Api
Sample Request:
http://earthwatchers.cloudapp.net/api/news
Sample Response (json or xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><ArrayOfNews xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance"><News><Id>20</Id><EarthwatcherId>37</EarthwatcherId><NewsItem>Earthwatchers selected as overal winner and winner of the Ideas Challenge at
the GMES Masters Competition. http://bit.ly/oNLgVI</NewsItem><Published>2011-10-27T12:57:22.353</Published><Wkt>POLYGON ((111 -1, 112 -1, 112 1, 111
1, 111 -1))</Wkt></News><News><Id>19</Id><EarthwatcherId>37</EarthwatcherId><NewsItem>Awesome! Our Earthwatchers award also in the Asian press.
http://bit.ly/p5Zdiw</NewsItem><Published>2011-10-27T12:53:19.717</Published><Wkt>POLYGON ((111 -1, 112 -1, 112 1, 111 1, 111 -
1))</Wkt></News><News><Id>18</Id><EarthwatcherId>37</EarthwatcherId><NewsItem>More touching words and personal experience from eco-warrior liza.
http://bit.ly/qEZsvN</NewsItem><Published>2011-10-27T12:52:34.75</Published><Wkt>POLYGON ((111 -1, 112 -1, 112 1, 111 1, 111 -
1))</Wkt></News><News><Id>17</Id><EarthwatcherId>37</EarthwatcherId><NewsItem>Another in-situ account on the 20 days witnesses of the Borneo present
and future. http://bit.ly/uhPYzy</NewsItem><Published>2011-10-27T12:52:11.44</Published><Wkt>POLYGON ((111 -1, 112 -1, 112 1, 111 1, 111 -
1))</Wkt></News><News><Id>16</Id><EarthwatcherId>37</EarthwatcherId><NewsItem>Personnal reflections and feelings from eco-warrior kodi. a pleasure to
read: http://bit.ly/vcvZoC</NewsItem><Published>2011-10-27T12:51:16.083</Published><Wkt>POLYGON ((111 -1, 112 -1, 112 1, 111 1, 111 -
1))</Wkt></News><News><Id>15</Id><EarthwatcherId>37</EarthwatcherId><NewsItem>The first 20 days, Why DeforestAction by Ben Dessen:
http://bit.ly/sHv93R</NewsItem><Published>2011-10-27T12:50:25.62</Published><Wkt>POLYGON ((111 -1, 112 -1, 112 1, 111 1, 111 -
1))</Wkt></News></ArrayOfNews>
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13. Earthwatchers Web Api Reference
http://deforestaction.codeplex.com/wikipage
?title=REST%20API&referringTitle=Docume
ntation
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14. Future plans
> Gamification
> Support Android, IPhone, Tablet,
Windows Phone, Windows 8
> Interactive tutorial
> Simplify user interface
> Improve Admin tools
> Streaming video from ISS with
Urthecast
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15. Wanna help?
Contact us at
http://deforestaction.codeplex.com
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