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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …