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December 22, 2010
The research of Department Head Vipin Kumar was featured December 18, 2010 issue of The Economist. The article specifically highlights the University of Minnesota's data mining work as a key enabler for low-cost monitoring of global forest cover.
This article discusses the launch of the first prototype of the forest skin that was developed jointly between the University of Minnesota, Planetary Skin Institute and NASA.
The Planetary Skin Institute and its partners unveiled the beta version of its Tropical Forest ALERTS 1.0 platform for monitoring global land change at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This is Planetary Skin Institute's first of a series of global public good platforms planned.
Read the full article titled "Seeing the world for the trees" on The Economist website.
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