Fun with GIS 309: Land Cover in a Changing Climate
It is with mixed emotions that I note how well the world has awakened to climate change. We are experiencing it within our own lifetimes. Fifty years ago, I first encountered discussion of it in college, and Landsat began giving us steady glimpses of such changes. Now, citizen scientists are gathering data about it, and you can participate, July 26 to August 26, 2022. Friends at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies have even built GIS apps within which you can examine the citizen science data and add a feature layer of GLOBE Land Cover Observations to your ArcGIS map.
The GLOBE Program invites you to participate in an upcoming challenge: "Land Cover in a Changing Climate." Use the GLOBE Observer mobile app to photograph the current land cover and document evidence of change in the area. Then complete the in-app field notes with your local, on-the-ground knowledge, which is especially helpful for scientists. Weekly themes for video reels and activities include: People and Places, Plants and Habitats, Food and Farms, Water and Wellness, and Ice and Climate.
And a bonus! If you contribute 25 observations during July 26 - August 26, 2022, the GLOBE Observer team will send you a digital Landsat image of one of your observations. If you contribute 50 or more observations during the challenge, they will mail you Landsat commemorative material.
Learn more about the challenge at: https://observer.globe.gov/land-cover-2022
