One of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the planet – the rainforests in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru – also contain some of the world’s most easily accessible sources of gold in the deposits left by old …
One of the hardest tasks we’re ever asked to do using satellite data is to separate ‘intact’ forest, i.e. forest that is broadly undisturbed, from forest that has been degraded to some degree or another. This is because the forest …
A paper co-authored by Space Intelligence’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Edward Mitchard has shown how large scale forest mapping products can underestimate the level of deforestation occurring. The team, led by Dr David Milodowski of the University of Edinburgh’s School …
Space intelligence scientist Dr Edward Mitchard led satellite data analyses to reveal the most extensive peat deposit in the tropics, in central Africa. Dr Mitchard worked with a team of scientists from the Universities of Leeds, University College London, St …
We have finished completing surveys in Sierra Leone on a forest mapping project. These data were used to produce a landscape classification map for a large project, and will support conservation and sustainable development. To do this, our field surveys …
This is a map of the world in ‘deforestation intensity’. Please click on it to see it full size. I have replotted this from the original 30 m data to a 3 km resolution, and coloured each pixel according to the …