Planet Celebrates One Year of the NICFI Satellite Data Program, Providing High-Resolution Data for Tropical Forest Management
October 27 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Planet, a leading provider of daily data and insights about
earth, is celebrating one year of the NICFI Satellite Data Program,
a partnership with Norway’s International Climate and Forests
Initiative (NICFI), Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), and Airbus
to advance scientific discovery and support sustainable management
of global tropical forests. Participants in the NICFI Satellite
Data Program are putting Planet data to work to help reduce and
reverse tropical forest loss through government action, private
sector adoption, and NGO coordination.
In September 2020, the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and
Environment awarded KSAT the first ever global contract to combat
deforestation. Since then, it has worked with Planet and Airbus to
provide comprehensive access to high-resolution satellite
monitoring of the tropics to help reduce tropical deforestation and
combat climate change.
Over the last year, the NICFI Satellite Data Program has
registered over 9,000 users from 130 countries around the world.
The Planet Tropical Basemaps account for over two-thirds of the
Basemap selections on Global Forest Watch, a figure that is growing
by 25% each quarter. Over 15 million tiles of the Planet Tropical
Basemaps have been streamed from the Planet platform, and 70% of
surveyed NICFI users said the NICFI Data is now their primary
imagery source.
The Program has established working relationships with a number
of key partners across its three levels of access. These include
Purpose Allies, which bring Visual Basemaps to local and global
communities, the Platform and Tool Partners, which enable technical
workflows on the Analysis-Ready Basemaps, and the General Partners,
which apply the Scenes-level data.
This past quarter, the NICFI Satellite Data Program launched a
number of new, consequential partnerships including a new
partnership with Google Earth Engine, which made the NICFI-Planet
Tropical Basemaps available in Google Earth Engine’s compute
platform for analysis. Users can access the data directly in their
GEE catalogue, with no need to store or move data. Within the first
month of the solution, over 1,100 NICFI users began to analyze the
Tropical Basemaps within Google Earth Engine.
The NICFI Satellite Data Program also announced new partnerships
to enable visual and story-telling use cases. Mapbox released a
suite of demo tools aimed at helping NICFI users more readily
translate the high-resolution data into visual story-telling tools.
These include providing users with templates to display
Planet-NICFI Basemaps on an interactive Mapbox webmap, enabling
them to select from multiple time periods to compare change over
time, and allowing them to create a swipe interaction to display
two sets of Planet-NICFI imagery side-by-side for easy comparison.
The Program Team also hosted a training webinar to help journalists
use the data for environmental reporting in partnership with the
Pulitzer Center.
To date, the NICFI Satellite Data Program has gathered over 300
user stories. This quarter many users shared their stories at
Planet Explore, Planet’s annual user conference:
- The European Space Agency and Gisat presented on how their team
is combining the NICFI-Planet Basemaps with the SAR band of
Sentinel-1 to improve deforestation detection and carbon mapping in
the Amazon.
- The Government of Uganda shared how their team, in partnership
with the United Nations, is using the NICFI-Planet Basemaps to
improve its Measurement, Reporting, and Verification to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- PepsiCo discussed how it is leveraging the NICFI-Planet
Basemaps via Global Forest Watch Pro to begin incorporating
satellite monitoring into their environmental impact assessments in
sourcing regions.
- The Wildlife Conservation Society and National Council for
Protected Areas in Guatemala showed how they are using the
Planet-NICFI Data to detect and intervene in illegal deforestation
in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. The number one driver of
deforestation in the Reserve is cattle ranching, and the
high-resolution Planet data allows them to detect ranching
infrastructure and illegal conversion to pastureland.
In year two of the program, Planet looks forward to seeing how
partners and users continue to innovate on how to leverage
high-resolution satellite monitoring to reduce and reverse tropical
forest loss and combat climate change.
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 700 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. Earlier this year,
Planet 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 later this
year. To learn more visit www.planet.com and follow us on Twitter
at @planet.
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