Asa Strong

GIS Software Engineer, Global Forest Watch

Bio

Asa is a GIS software engineer for the Global Forest Watch (GFW) project. Asa writes code for the back-end of GFW to manage satellite data such as near real-time forest loss alerts and other geospatial content. The code-bases and GIS technology he works with automate updates to GFW websites and make it easy for users to run analyses on, visualize and download GFW data. He also contributes to the GFW API by authoring microservices, registering datasets and maintaining documentation.

Asa also manages products for GFW such as its Open Data Portal and Liberia Forest Atlas. Asa works with users and team members to incorporate feedback on application designs and further app development through iterative processes. He also helps build GIS capacity within GFW priority countries such as Liberia.

Blog Posts

3 Ways Open Data Can Help Forests
by Asa Strong - August 20, 2015
The open data movement—the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone—can drive innovation, make government and corporate activities more transparent and improve decision-making about natural resources.
Satellite Data Reveals State of the World’s Mangrove Forests
by Asa Strong and Susan Minnemeyer - February 20, 2015
Coastal mangroves are some of the most carbon-rich and productive forests in the world.

New analysis shows that the world lost 192,000 hectares (474,000 acres) of mangroves from 2001 to 2012, a total loss of 1.38 percent since 2000 (or 0.13 percent annually).
Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples Protect their Forests Even Without Government Support
by Robert Winterbottom, Caleb Stevens and Asa Strong - November 14, 2014
Nicaragua legally recognizes 49 percent of its remaining forests as community-owned forests.

But it wasn't always this way; indigenous communities stepped up and conserved their forests in the face of government inaction.

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