Jamaica boosts coastal disaster assessment skills through TNC workshop
KINGSTON, Jamaica—More than 60 government and environmental stakeholders gathered for The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) science capacity building workshop on using geospatial data for change detection in coastal ecosystems on February 9 and 10, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The two-day workshop focused on the fundamentals and applied use of remote sensing to evaluate hurricane impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems, using PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The training...