Earthobservations.org Indigenous Summit 2020

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  • Terrastories: mapping indigenous place-based oral histories
    Rudo Kemper, Digital Democracy
  • Making Culture Visible and Tracking the Exchange of Value
    Leif Grünewald, PhD. UFPR/Indigeniza/United Nations Innovation
  • Satellite imagery in support of improved disaster risk reduction for indigenous communities
  • Einar Bjørgo, Director, Division for Satellite Analysis and Applied Research Manager, UNOSAT
  • Shuar women, decisions and actions as entrepreneurs of sustainable tourism for territorial defense and mitigating climate change
  • Yanua Vargas Tanchimia, Indigenous reporter and film-maker from the Ecuadorian Amazon
  • Free high resolution satellite data for the guardians of the forests
  • Leif John Fosse, Senior adviser with the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative in the Ministry of Climate and Environment and Sveinung Rotevatn, Minister of Climate and Environment, Norway
Rudo Kemper

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Leif Grünewald

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Einar Bjørgo

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Yanua Vargas Tanchimia

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Leif John Fosse

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Sveinung Rotevatn
Bradley Brower

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Richard Teeuw

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Valerie Graw

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Melinda M. Adams

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Christian Langer

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  • Hunting on thin ice
    Bradley Brower, Young Inupiaq subsistence hunter from the Alaskan Arctic
  • Using satellite radar to assist legal action by Colombia forest peoples against illegal gold mining: the Rio Atrato basin, Colombia
    Richard Teeuw, University of Portsmouth
  • EO4E – Access to renewable energy for remote indigenous communities
    Valerie Graw, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)
  • Keepers of the Flame: (Re)vitalizing Indigenous Cultural Fire as Climate Action and Land Stewardship in California
    Melinda M. Adams, Ph.D student, Department of Native American Studies The University of California Davis
  • Wildfire Monitoring in Madagascar
    Christian Langer, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) , Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Bradley Brower

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Richard Teeuw

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Valerie Graw

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Melinda M. Adams

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Christian Langer

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  • Hunting on thin ice
    Bradley Brower, Young Inupiaq subsistence hunter from the Alaskan Arctic
  • Using satellite radar to assist legal action by Colombia forest peoples against illegal gold mining: the Rio Atrato basin, Colombia
    Richard Teeuw, University of Portsmouth
  • EO4E – Access to renewable energy for remote indigenous communities
    Valerie Graw, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)
  • Keepers of the Flame: (Re)vitalizing Indigenous Cultural Fire as Climate Action and Land Stewardship in California
    Melinda M. Adams, Ph.D student, Department of Native American Studies The University of California Davis
  • Wildfire Monitoring in Madagascar
    Christian Langer, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) , Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany