Google wants to help watch over world's forests

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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 11 (AFP): Google on Thursday unveiled a tool that lets scientists and defenders of the environment use the Internet to keep an eye on what is left of the Earth's forests.
"We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world's rapidly-disappearing forests," Rebecca Moore and Amy Luers of the US Internet giant's philanthropic arm Google.org said in a blog post.
The technology lets scientists analyze raw satellite imagery data and extract information such as locations and measurements of deforestation or even regeneration of forest.