News - Metria

New land cover mapping of Sweden

2013-01-07

Metria continues to strengthen the co-operation with national agencies in need of updated land cover and land use information. Our heritage of using Earth Observation data to map nature types and landscapes will ensure high-quality mapping as well as developing of efficient tools.
We monitor land investments in southeast Africa

2012-10-12

Through a new agreement, Metria will help WWF (the World Wide Fund for Nature) and the Nordic Africa Institute to monitor whether forests shrink when various players invest in biofuel in southeast Africa.
Earth Observation supporting the World Bank

2012-10-12

Metria have for the World Bank and financed by the European Space Agency performed a land cover classification of two forest areas in north-western Liberia.
Metria to map forest and imperviosness for EEA

2012-02-02

Metria won GMES GIO Land contracts to map the Nordic countries/Baltic States, but also as a subcontractor perform pre-processing of satellite data covering Turkey.
Elephant conservation in Tanzania

2011-12-21

Metria works for WWF, with vegetation mapping and environmental monitoring in the Mtwara Development Corridor in Southern Tanzania. The keystone species of the area is the african elephant currently under great preassure due to increased poaching in the area.
Metria maps rain forest in Liberia

2011-12-21

Metria have on a contract from the World Bank and financed by the European Space Agency mapped rain forest in north western Liberia.
Background data for crisis management; Horn of Africa

2011-08-29

That a big humanitarian catastrophy is currently taking place in the Horn of Africa, has probably not escaped anyone's attention. During the course of several years, Metria has been working continuously with mapping and monitoring changes in refugee camps in east Africa; mainly in Somalia, but also in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Djibouti.