Our visiting scientist, Dr Penny How, is being supported by NERC to lend her expertise to Space Intelligence. Dr How specialises in glaciology, and uses both field and remote sensing data to monitor ice flows …
A recent paper by Thomas Janssen, a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, uses remote sensing to tell the story of the Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve in Ghana. The paper, co-authored by Space Intelligence’s …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …