Planet Collaborates with Google Earth to Offer NICFI Tropical Forest Basemaps in Google Earth Engine
07 September 2021 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Planet, a leading provider of daily data and insights about
Earth, today announced a new collaboration with Google Earth to
make high-resolution data from Norway’s International Climate and
Forests Initiative (NICFI) Satellite Data program available on the
Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. Insights from Planet’s
analysis-ready data combined with the power of Google’s Cloud will
enable the entire NICFI community to analyze regional and global
tropical forest losses on a scale not possible through traditional
means.
With access to Planet’s high-quality data and analytics,
countries around the globe are better prepared to protect the
world’s tropical forests against deforestation and tackle climate
change. Early-access users have already tested the new integration
for real-world applications, facilitating next-level discussions
among scientists and policymakers in the fight to reduce and
reverse tropical forest loss. Some of these innovative applications
include:
- SERVIR, is a partnership of NASA and USAID and leading
geospatial organizations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, that
helps communities incorporate satellite Earth data into
decision-making, tackling complex challenges like food security,
water resources, and disaster mitigations. With the integration of
Planet-NICFI data into Google Earth Engine, SERVIR can deliver
greater convenience to its partners and provide a new level of
detail and insight to decision-makers. In West Africa, Planet-NICFI
data is already helping SERVIR monitor charcoal production, a key
driver of deforestation in the region.
- Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands plan to
utilize this solution to power machine learning models that can
detect forest disturbances at higher spatial and temporal
resolutions. With the Planet-NICFI analysis-ready Basemaps now
available, the researchers will be able to test whether forest
disturbances at scale can be classified using high-resolution,
near-real time optical data.
- University of Copenhagen researchers can now directly access
Planet-NICFI data in the GEE catalog, enabling pantropical analysis
currently not possible on local servers. The group plans to utilize
the integration for their custom studies on biomass mapping, tree
species classification, and restoration monitoring.
“From its inception 10 years ago, Google Earth Engine’s mission
has been a global-scale platform for Earth science data and
analysis to further the most pressing environmental and societal
issues we face,” said Brian Sullivan, Sr. Program Manager at
Google. “By partnering with the NICFI program to connect the first
high-resolution, deep time-series imagery with the latest
geospatial and machine learning platforms, groups working to stop
deforestation will now have access to insights and solutions at a
previously unprecedented scale.”
“Ecological stewardship is at the heart of Planet’s mission,”
said Kevin Weill, Planet’s President of Business & Product. “By
collaborating with Google Earth to put Planet’s high-quality data
in the hands of NICFI researchers, together we can unlock new
insights and help prepare countries around the globe to protect the
world’s tropical forests against deforestation and tackle climate
change.”
The integration is currently available to NICFI Data Program
users and GEE users.
About Planet
Planet is the leading provider of global, daily satellite
imagery and geospatial solutions. Planet is driven by a mission to
image the world every day, and make change visible, accessible and
actionable. Founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists, Planet
designs, builds, and operates the largest Earth observation fleet
of imaging satellites, capturing and compiling data from over 3
million images per day. Planet provides mission-critical data,
advanced insights, and software solutions to over 600 customers,
comprised of the world’s leading agriculture, forestry,
intelligence, education and finance companies and government
agencies, enabling users to simply and effectively derive unique
value from satellite imagery. Planet recently entered into a
definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV
(NYSE:DMYQ), a special purpose acquisition company, to become a
publicly-traded company. To learn more visit www.planet.com and
follow us on Twitter at @planet.
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