UNEP AND GOOGLE PARTNER TO MONITOR IMPACT OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON ECOSYSTEM.

Highlights

• UN Environment Programme and Google have partnered to monitor the impact of human activities on how it affects the global ecosystem.

• It will be done using sophisticated online tools that will help in monitoring human activities.

• An initial focus will be on freshwater ecosystems like mountains, rivers, lakes and forests.

• This process will help in preventing or for that matter reversing the ecosystem loss.

UN Environment Programme and the search engine giant Google have gone about and entered into a partnership to monitor the impact of human activities on how it affects the global ecosystem. The activity will be monitored through the use of sophisticated online tools.

This partnership came into being at a High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at United Nations headquarters, which is situated in New York.

The partnership aims at developing a probable platform that would enable NGO's, governments and the public to track all important environment-related developments via Google's user-friendly front end. Initially, the focus here will be on the freshwater ecosystem that pertains to natural resources like mountains, rivers, lakes, aquifers, forests and wetlands.

With the use of Cloud computing technology, Google will aid in producing periodical geospatial maps and data in context to all water-related ecosystem. The use of this technology will help in generating satellite imagery along with stats that will allow one to assess the extent of changes that have taken place by which countries will be able to track changes that would allow them to prevent or for that matter reverse the ecosystem loss.