[Forest-list] 2013-03-10 NRMI: This Issue: Detecting and Monitoring, Informal Settlements, Favelas, and Slums (Part 1) and Some Other Good Things

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2013-03-10**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/Detecting and Monitoring, Informal Settlements, Favelas, 
and Slums (Part 1)/ *and Some Other Good Things

*BUT FIRST, WON'T YOU PLEASE HELP? Inventory and monitoring of woody 
debris on coastal beaches. *Hi, I am looking for any publications 
dealing with the inventory and monitoring of beach wood (not beech wood) 
on the worlds coastal areas. If you have any information to share, 
please contact me at gyde at comcast.net <mailto:gyde at comcast.net>. Thank 
you in advance for your kind assistance. Cheers, Gyde.*
*

*DETECTING AND MONITORING, INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, FAVELAS, AND SLUMS 
(Part 1) -- *Last November, a list member asked, /"Could some of you 
lend some assistance by identifying some OSINT (Open Source 
Intelligence) sources that can be used to detect and monitor the 
presence of slum/informal settlements/favelas, development? Any 
information you provide will be much appreciated."/ Here some sites that 
may be of interest:

Abebe, Fikreselassie Kassahun.2011. *Modelling informal settlement 
growth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania* 
<http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2011/msc/upm/abebe.pdf>. Thesis. 110 p.

Almeida et al. 2011. *Population Estimates in Informal Settlements Using 
Object-Based Image Analysis and 3D Modeling* 
<http://www.earthzine.org/2011/08/16/population-estimates-in-informal-settlements-using-object-based-image-analysis-and-3d-modeling/>. 


Aminipouri, M. et al. 2009. *Object-oriented analysis of very high 
resolution orthophotos for estimating the population of slum areas, case 
of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.* 
<http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2009/msc/gem/aminipouri.pdf%20and%20http:/www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/1_4_7-W5/paper/Aminipouri-151.pdf> 
73 p.

Anon. 2011. *Detecting slums from SPOT data in Casablanca Morocco using 
an object based approach*. 
<http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Detecting+slums+from+SPOT+data+in+Casablanca+Morocco+using+an+object...-a0269921494> 


Anon. 2012 *Participatory mapping for city**-wide slum upgrading in 
India*. <http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2012/ppt/gltn01/gltn01_kunte_ppt.pdf> 
15 p.

Antonio, Danilo. 2011. *Social Tenure Domain Model: Towards Addressing 
the Information Requirements of Informal Settlements.* 
<http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2011/papers/ts07g/ts07g_antonio_5391.pdf>25 p.

Antstis, Siena. 2009 *An open source project to map one of the world's 
biggest slums.* <http://this.org/blog/2009/11/10/map-kibera-nairobi-slum/>**

*Architecture for humanity - Open-source architectural plans* 
<http://imaginationforpeople.org/en/project/architecture-for-humanity/>*. *

Arimah, Ben C. 2011? *Slums as Expressions of Social Exclusion: 
Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in African Countries* 
<http://www.oecd.org/dev/perspectivesonglobaldevelopment/46837274.pdf>*.*33 
p.

Azar, Derek et al. 2010. *Spatial refinement of census population 
distribution using remotely sensed estimates of impervious surfaces in 
Haiti* 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2010.496799>*.*Int. J. 
of remote Sensing. 31(21): 5635-5655. Abstract.

Bazoglu, N et al. 2004. *Monitoring Security of Tenure in Cities: 
People, Land and Policies.* 
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/77004731/Monitoring-Security-of-Tenure-in-Cities-People-Land-and-Policies>**

Beges, Sarina A. 2012.*In Kenyan slum, mobile phones pinpoint better 
water.* 
<http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/in_kenyan_slum_mobile_phones_pinpoint_better_water_20121026/>**

Bezroukov, Nikolai. N.d. *A Slightly Skeptical View on Usage of Open 
Source in Developing Countries*- 
<http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/oss_in_developing_countries.shtml>

Brand, Stewart. 2010. *How slums can save the planet*. 
<http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=179133>

Busgeeth, Karishma et al. 2008. *Potential application of remote sensing 
in monitoring informal settlements in developing countries where 
complimentary data does not exist* 
<http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/10204/3102/1/Busgeeth1_2008.pdf%20and%20http:/144.206.159.178/ft/CONF/16423743/16423754.pdf>. 
15 p.

Catch up. 2010. *Kibera: The Lie of the Biggest Slum in Africa.* 
<http://myblogcatchup.blogspot.com/2010/09/kibera-lie-of-biggest-slum-in-africa.html>

ComHabitat. 2006. *Urbanisation, growing slums and global change:a 
challenge Commonwealth countries need to address urgently* 
<http://www.comhabitat.org/struct_docs/CSOBriefingPaper.pdf>. 6 p.

Coren, Michael J .n.d. *MIT's Free Urban Planning Software Will Help 
Build The Cities Of The Future* 
<http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678493/mits-free-urban-planning-software-will-help-build-the-cities-of-the-future>. 


Cravino, Maria Cristina. 2011. *Structural transformations of slums in 
Buenos Aires* 
<http://www.rc21.org/conferences/amsterdam2011/edocs/Session%2029/RT29-1-Cravino.pdf>. 
12 p.

Das, Anamika .n.d. *South Africa: On a growth path with GIS.* 
<http://beta.geospatialworld.net/Paper/Business/ArticleView.aspx?aid=19133>

*Data Sources* <http://www.worldmapper.org/data_sources.html>-

Davis, James et al. 2012. *Measuring water collection times in Kenyan 
informal settlements.* 
<http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2160689>Article posting.

de Borchgrave, Arnaud. et al. 2007. *Force Multiplier for Intelligence 
Collaborative Open Source Networks* 
<http://csis.org/files/publication/120824_DeBorchgrave_ForceMultiplier_Web.pdf>*. 
*88 p.

Doherty, Patrick. 2012. *Digital Technology - Informal Settlements and 
Community Empowerment in the Kibera Slum, Kenya* 
<http://www.slideshare.net/pwdoherty/digital-technology-informal-settlements-amp-community-empowerment-in-the-kibera-slum-kenya>. 


Donovan, K. 2012. *Seeing Like a Slum: Towards Open, Deliberative 
Development* 
<http://blurringborders.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Donovan_Seeing_Like_a_Slum_Prepublication.pdf>*.* 
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 13(1), 97-104**

*SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Cheshire, Tom. 2011. *The news forecast: Can you predict the future by 
mining millions of web pages for data*? 
<http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/12/features/the-news-forecast?page=all>

Earnst, S.L., et al. 2012. *Changes in avian and plant communities of 
aspen woodlands over 12 years after livestock removal in the 
northwestern Great Basin <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22889077>.* 
Conserv. Biol. 26(5):862-872. Abstract

Fairweather, Stephen. 2005. *Forest inventory: A solid foundation for 
stand density management.* 
<http://extension.oregonstate.edu/douglas/sites/default/files/documents/forestry/SDM/SteveFairweatherPaper.pdf>**5 
p.

FAO. 2012. *FRA 2015. Terms and definitions 
<http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/ap862e/ap862e00.pdf>.* FRA Working Paper 
180. FAO. .31 p.

FAO. 2012. *Global ecological Zones for FAO forest reporting: 2010 
update. <http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/ap861e/ap861e00.pdf> *Forest 
Resources Assessment Working Paper 179. FAO. 42 p.

Fisher, B.P. 2012. *Conservation and livelihoods: identifying trade-offs 
and win-wins. 
<http://www.uvm.edu/giee/pubpdfs/Fisher_2012_Frontiers_in_Ecology.pdf>* 
Front. Ecol. Environ. 10(7):343-343

Fisher, J.R.B.; Dills, B. 2012. *Do private conservation activities 
match science-based conservation priorities? 
<http://lib.bioinfo.pl/paper:23029516>* PLoS ONE 7(9):e46429. Abstract.

Fritschle, J.A. 2012. *Identification of old-growth forest reference 
ecosystems using historic land surveys, Redwood National Park, 
California. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00832.x/abstract>* 
Restor. Ecol. 20(6):679-687. Abstract.

Garcia-Ulloa, J., et al. 2012. *Lowering environmental costs of oil-palm 
expansion in Colombia. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00254.x/abstract>* 
Conserv. Lett. 5(5):366-375. Abstract.

Gong, B.C., et al. 2012. *Limits to religious conservation efforts 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23139311>*. Science 338(6108):740. 
Listing.

Guillet, A., et al. 2012. *Systemic Spatial Decision Support Systems: an 
integrated, computer-aided tool for biodiversity conservation. 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11263504.2012.740087?journalCode=tplb20#preview>* 
Plant Biosyst. 146(4):814-826. First Page.

Hoare, R. 2012. *Lessons from 15 years of human-elephant conflict 
mitigation: management considerations involving biological, physical and 
governance issues in Africa. 
<http://www.pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachy/article/viewArticle/274>* 
Pachyderm 51:60-74. Abstract.

Huang, X.L., et al. 2012. *Willing or unwilling to share primary 
biodiversity data: results and implications of an international survey 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00259.x/abstract>*. 
Conserv. Lett. 5(5):399-406. Abstract/

Jaafar, Z.; Giam, X. 2012. *Misinformation and omission in science 
journalism. 
<http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v5/TCS-2012_jun_142-149_Jaafar_and_Giam.pdf>* 
Trop. Conserv. Sci. 5(2):142-149.

Jiguet, F., et al. 2012. *French citizens monitoring ordinary birds 
provide tools for conservation and ecological sciences. 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X11000762>* 
Acta Oecol. 44:58-66. Abstract.

JK/RZ. 2013. *Will more trees cause more rain? 
<http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97428/Will-more-trees-cause-more-rain>* 
IRIN.

Kellner, J.R., et al. 2012. *Historical land-cover classification for 
conservation and management in Hawaiian subalpine drylands. 
<http://pacificscience.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pac-sci-early-view-66-4-4.pdf>* 
Pacific Sci. 66(4):457-466

Koh, L.P.; Wich, S.A. 2012.*Dawn of drone ecology: low-cost autonomous 
aerial vehicles for conservation.* 
<http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v5/TCS-2012_jun_121-132_Koh_and_Wich.pdf>**Trop. 
Conserv. Sci. 5(2):121-132.

Kumara, H.N., et al. 2012.*Estimating Asian elephant, /Elephas maximus,/ 
density through distance sampling in the tropical forests of Biligiri 
Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve, India. 
<http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v5/TCS-2012_jun_163-172_Kumara_et_al.pdf>* 
Trop. Conserv. Sci. 5(2):163-172

*KEEPING UP-TO-DATE -- PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS.*See 
also 
http://botany.si.edu/puhttps://www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm 
<http://botany.si.edu/puhttps:/www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm>, 
http://scholar.google.com/, and**Directory of Open Access Journals. 
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals. 
<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.%5C>

*GSDI and IGS Global News- *Issue No. 2 for 2013 at is available in pdf 
format under http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters#GSDI or directly at 
http://memberservices.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1216

*United Forest -- *issue number 32 of UNECE Forestry Department 
Newsletter is available at 
http://www.unece.org/forests-welcome/about-us/forestsaboutusnewsletter/forestsnewsletter32articles.html#c35738. 
 From Nelson Wong, IFL

*Free ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Integrated with ArcGIS Online - 
*http://free-gis-data.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-free-arcgis-explorer-desktop.html. 
 From Shaan W., IFL

*People and Forests E-News*-- the March 2013 issue is now available at 
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a79eee76ce1869204bc04a12d&id=79cbb4d640&e=73f2043cf8

*InfoSylva --*You may access the latest issue -(No. 04/2013) of FAO's 
forestry news clippings at 
http://www.fao.org/forestry/36323-0b1ae52b36ed33a413351eea31b8e3299.pdf

*WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC*. -- See also: 
http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and 
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/.

9-10 May 2012. *From Known Knowns to Unknown Unknowns: Remotely 
Detecting the Past.* Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Dublin, Ireland. 
See 
http://www.archaeolandscapes.eu/index.php/en/outreach/conferences/347-u2k2.html. 
 From Artur Gil, Applied GIS RS List.

23-25 May 2013. *Investment Summit of Agriculture and Forestry in 
Colombia & South America.* Medellin, Colombia. This annual event also 
includes The First Agri-Investment LATAM presenting specific 
investments, exhibitors, and an agenda of speakers addressing 
investments in Colombia. For more information, contact 
Mark.Willhite at juno.com <mailto:Mark.Willhite at juno.com> Mark Willhite. 
World Forest Investment, Inc.

20-24 October 2013. *Asian Conference on Remote Sensing.* Bali, 
Indonesia. For details see http://www.acrs2013.com/. From Artur Gil 
,Applied GIS RS List.

*MOVING AHEAD -- OPPORTUNITIES*-- See also: Scholarships-Positions 
<http://scholarship-positions.com/>, Forestry, Arboriculture, 
Agriculture, Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at 
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, 
Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding 
Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/, 
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html The Job Seekers Guide for 
International and Environmental Careers 
_http://timresch.net/ejobs/index.htm _and Scholarship Listing 
_http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/_.

*Remote Sensing Officer*-- FAO Forestry. Rome. For details see 
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/VA/pdf/IRC2286e.pdf

*2 Open PhD positions in Land Remote sensing in Switzerland*- 1. PhD 
position: Remote sensing of land cover / land use change for soil 
monitoring (iMSoil-2013-01) and 2. PhD position: Proximal and remote 
sensing for soil property mapping (PMSoil-2013-02). For further 
questions, please contact Michael.Schaepman at geo.uzh.ch 
<mailto:Michael.Schaepman at geo.uzh.ch>. From Artur Gil, Applied GIS RS List.

*NEXT ISSUE -- /Detecting and monitoring informal settlements (Part 2) /*

*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/*

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