NORTH POTOMAC, Md.,
Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- TerraPulse, the premier provider of artificial intelligence
for monitoring large land areas, announced today the company has
been selected by the countries of Belize, Costa
Rica, and the Dominican
Republic to map forest cover as part of a sweeping forest
activity study funded by The World Bank.
Through the program, terraPulse will apply scientifically
peer-reviewed AI to nearly forty years of satellite imagery to
support the countries' monitoring of forest assets. The approach
fuses data from local sources with global satellite data from NASA;
the results will enable carbon modeling and the development of
greenhouse gas inventories for the United Nations' Land Use,
Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) land sector
initiative.
The project is part of the REDD+ Readiness process, moderated by
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
which supports countries' efforts to reduce emissions from
deforestation and to foster sustainable management of
forests.
"The process of protecting natural assets can be incredibly
challenging," says Dr. Julian
Gonzalo, Senior Carbon Finance Specialist at World Bank
Group.
"The challenge is that repeatable (short-cycle monitoring),
large-scale (jurisdictional) monitoring using in situ measurements
is not easily scalable. Countries participating in World Bank
Emissions Reduction Programs need a robust, transparent, and
replicable approach to provide reliable estimates of land use and
land cover change for estimating forest reference emission levels
and reporting periodically about emissions and emission
reductions," says Dr. Gonzalo. "Companies like terraPulse help
bridge that information gap by using remotely-sensed data and
machine learning to provide reliable insights."
"We are honored to be part of this effort, and we look forward
to a long and productive partnership with the governments of
Belize, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic," says Saurabh Channan, CEO and co-founder of
terraPulse.
TerraPulse's prior experience supporting REDD+ and similar
programs includes national forest mapping for the Philippines
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Forest
Management Bureau (FMB); the Dominican
Republic through the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership
Facility; and Myanmar in
partnership with NASA and the Smithsonian
Institution.
About terraPulse:
Founded in 2014, terraPulse
develops cloud-based solutions for monitoring ecosystem change at
local, national, and global scales. Using peer-reviewed
methodologies that apply big data and machine-learning to satellite
imagery, terraPulse has produced the world's first sub-hectare
resolution maps of global tree-canopy cover, surface water, and
urbanization. With unmatched speed, accuracy and granularity—down
to individual property parcels—terraPulse enables governments,
nonprofits, businesses, and academic institutions to monitor,
protect and commercialize natural assets--including the rapidly
growing market for carbon offsets.
Contact: Angela Stanley,
919-480-7937, angela@benecomms.io
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