Satellites can’t answer philosophical questions about the sound of a tree falling in a forest, but they can answer scientific ones, like where and when it fell and its carbon impact. For decades, scientists have turned to Earth observation satellites to measure the status of the systems that support life on Earth […]
A groundbreaking and alarming report found that Earth’s land carbon sink absorbed almost no carbon last year. Consider that for a moment: the ecosystems that have buffered our excess emissions for decades may not continue to do so indefinitely. While a slowdown has long been anticipated as climate change disrupts ecosystem function, […]
Authors: Christopher Anderson, David Marvin, & Maxwell Joseph As world leaders discuss climate solutions at Summit of the Future and Climate Week NYC, Planet is proud to announce the release of Forest Carbon Monitoring, a new data product for mapping forest change at high resolution worldwide. Built using data from Planet’s fleet […]
By Christopher Anderson, Amy Rosenthal, and Flávia de Souza Mendes. Today, Amazon Conservation released the first in a series of three Mapping the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) reports on forest carbon across the Amazon that leverages our Forest Carbon Diligence product. The reports reveal patterns of aboveground carbon dynamics, including where and […]
Mapping trees from space is a technically challenging endeavor. It may seem straightforward at times — what’s so hard about counting all those round green things in satellite images? It may also seem like a solved problem, since the foundations of forest monitoring were established in the 1980s. But like the history […]
The Forest Management Institute (FMI) is the government organization, established by the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Agriculture, responsible for implementing the National Forest Inventory. In 2018, FMI began working with Planet datasets to undertake a comprehensive geospatial analysis and report the devastating impacts of the bark beetle epidemic on Czech forests. By […]
In an effort to enable greater impact from the NICFI Satellite Data Program, Planet has teamed up with Google to make high-resolution, tropical forest Basemaps available within the Earth Engine platform. This brings the power of Google’s cloud to the entire NICFI community to run analysis at regional and global levels to […]
How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. As a result, its ecosystem provides a range of services including wood and timber, plants, […]
It’s been nearly nine months since Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment (NICFI) awarded an international contract to KSAT, Planet, and Airbus. Since the launch of the coalition, initiatives across the world have been leveraging Planet’s high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics, free of charge, helping to save the world’s tropical forests […]
Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment today awarded an international contract to Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), who, together with Planet and Airbus, will provide universal access to high-resolution satellite monitoring of the tropics in order to support efforts to stop deforestation and save the world’s tropical forests. Through this program, the coalition […]
