Remote Sensing for environmental law
enforcement
LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2010
Tony Lowes, Friends of the Irish Environment
River Inny, County Westmeath
Exposed peat and possible peatland vegetation, Landsat 2003 & 2006.
Authors: Dr. F. Cawkwell, Dr. N Dwyer, Mr. R Scarrett
SPOT 10 metre multispectoral and 5m panchromatic imagery
Clara Bog. Landsat [a]. Overlay of peat vegetation in green and exposed peatlands in red [b]. Final cleaned image [c].
[UCC Report for FIE.]
Top: Google Earth May 2006Bottom: changes observed using SPOT between June 2007 to May 2008.