{"id":137,"date":"2018-05-19T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/?p=137"},"modified":"2018-05-19T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T04:00:22","slug":"terra-i-and-land-use-change-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/2018\/05\/19\/terra-i-and-land-use-change-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Terra-I and land-use change detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terra-I detects and monitors land cover change resulting from human activities. It was developed in cooperation with CIAT to provide decision-makers and national and local authorities near real time updates of vegetation loss and deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>Terra-I will be a powerful tool for this research project. My ability to estimate the carbon impact at a national level is largely dependent on the Terra-I team being able to locate and estimate the sizes of cocoa plantations. The exercise will require a visual inspection of satellite imagery to confirm what a typical cocoa farm signature should look like. This information will then be able to be fed back into the system in order to replicate on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a short time-lapse video of Terra-I detecting land-use change and deforestation (shown in red) in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wtVDKUFDso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terra-I detects and monitors land cover change resulting from human activities. It was developed in cooperation with CIAT to provide decision-makers and national and local authorities near real time updates of vegetation loss and deforestation. Terra-I will be a powerful tool for this research project. My ability to estimate the carbon impact at a national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/2018\/05\/19\/terra-i-and-land-use-change-detection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Terra-I and land-use change detection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,21],"tags":[23,24,25],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-climate-change","category-deforestation","category-land-use-change","tag-deforestation","tag-land-use-change","tag-satellite-imagery","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/jan-rafter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}