Contributed by Theun
The corporate battle over Smarter Cities is spreading to a planetary scale this month. Several gigantic projects are unveiled that map... well everything.
A Google service that came online during december is Earth Engine. It claims to open up masses of (historic) data on the biosphere gathered through satellites. The thing with satellite monitoring is that it doesn't usually work for monitoring a small selection of species or indeed a single species.
Another absolutely massive project is undertaken by Sisco and Nasa called Planetary Skin Q: [Planetary Skin will provide a common platform for integrating data; scientific, economic and risk models; data processing and communication networks; and visualization and collaboration tools.]
It includes many 'skins':
But some envisage an even more all encompassing project:
The Living Earth Simulator basically would sense, map and visualize all processes on Earth. It would Q: [aim to model both Earth and the details of its societies in detail by 2022, at the cost of about $1.3 billion]
Contributed by Theun
FoAM based research and prototyping project looking at: how the tagosphere connects with the biosphere.
News on augmented ecology, citizen science, eco-monitoring, biodiversity & new media via twitter: @IforAE
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