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Dryland farming caused a large dust storm in parts of Eastern Washington on October 4, 2009. Courtesy: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response [1]. Dryland farming has evolved as a set of techniques and management practices to adapt to limited availability of water, as in the Western US and other regions affected by climate change for crops such as tomato and maize.
The APIs provide functionality like analytics, machine learning as a service (the Prediction API) or access to user data (when permission to read the data is given). Another important example is an embedded Google map on a website, which can be achieved using the Static Maps API, [1] Places API [2] or Google Earth API. [3]
There are situations where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out; however, these sites are now uncensored. [3]
The Google Maps API was free for commercial use, provided that the site on which it is being used is publicly accessible and did not charge for access, and was not generating more than 25,000 map accesses a day. [135] [136] Sites that did not meet these requirements could purchase the Google Maps API for Business. [137]
"OS Maps", by Ordnance Survey. OpenStreetMap - covers the whole country "StreetMap", by Streetmap EU Ltd, at streetmap.co.uk - covers the whole country; United States. Apple Maps - covers the whole country; Bing Maps – covers the whole country; Google Maps - covers the whole country; Libre Map Project; MapQuest - covers the whole country
The greatest issue in drylands, is land degradation which poses a huge danger to the world's capacity to end hunger. [7] Drylands occupy around 2 million km² or respectively 90%, 75%, and 67% of Kenya, [8] Tanzania, [9] and Ethiopia respectively. More than 60 million people, or 40% of these countries’ population, live in drylands.
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology , physiography , vegetation , climate , soils , land use , wildlife distributions, and hydrology .
Desertification is a gradual process of increased soil aridity.Desertification has been defined in the text of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities."