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The AI revolution in satellite data explained

The AI revolution in satellite data explained

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21st October 2020

Looks like art? It’s actually a satellite view of Xigaze, China from a Worldview satellite at sub-meter resolution, captured from Google Earth. © 2020 Maxar Technologies The AI revolution in satellite data explained Not long ago, satellite data was all …

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Did the Covid-19 lockdown really boost bees and wildflowers in Scotland?

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30th July 2020

Did the Covid-19 lockdown really boost bees and wildflowers in Scotland? During the lockdown, we came across this fascinating article “Coronavirus may prove boost for UK’s bees and rare wildflowers”. Road verges are a key habitat for wildflowers in the …

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Covid-19 Update

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31st March 2020

Covid-19 update Almost regardless of where you are in the world, these have been era-defining weeks as we experience the spread of the pandemic. Here in Edinburgh we’re now officially in something close to lockdown, along with, according to the …

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Rapid forest loss around Medco Papua Hijau mill in Papua, the beginnings of traceability (Papua palm oil production Part 1)

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4th May 2018

Deforestation for palm oil production has again received international attention in light of allegations that plantation linked to major household names has been encroaching on protected peatland area. We thought this would be a good opportunity to look at the …

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Unilever palm oil mill locations and comparisons to forest change

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26th April 2018

Earlier this year, Unilever decided to release the locations of all of its mills used for palm oil production. The locations of 1431 mills were disclosed. This is very useful information for scientists as these locations can be compared to …

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Unilever releases locations of palm oil mills in a bid for supply chain transparency

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12th April 2018

In February 2018, Unilever released details about its palm oil suppliers and mills in a bid to makes its supply chain more transparent. In what they call a ‘radical step’, they are one of very few companies to make this …

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An introduction to active remote sensing for environmental monitoring

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4th April 2018

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 in Svalbard. She has written …

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Detecting past deforestation and woody encroachment in a protected area in Ghana

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18th March 2018

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 Murray Collins and Edward Mitchard, …

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Space Intelligence uses Sentinel-1 satellite data shows ever-expanding illegal gold mining in Peru

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26th February 2018

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 …

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Distinguishing intact forest from degraded forest in Cameroon

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19th February 2018

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 …

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