Satellite imagery has greatly expanded opportunities for satellite data integration, analysis, modelling, and satellite map production for assessing and monitoring key development issues. As populations grow, landscape changes and countries boost their economies, governments have increasingly relied on up-to-date satellite imagery and other geospatial data for applications such as planning, land registration, disaster response, public health, agricultural biodiversity, conservation, and forestry. Satellite data provides authoritative information about more than half of the 50 crucial climate change variables. This is enabling governments around the world to refine their first-round climate action plans, establishing evidence-based approaches to reduce emissions and build resilience.
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data in conjunction with Planet are hosting a webinar to provide a demonstration and access to Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative (NICFI), Satellite Data Program. This program provides governments free access to high-resolution (<5m/px) visual and analysis-ready mosaics of the full tropics each month, and also with high-resolution archives. NICFI’s free high-resolution, analysis-ready mosaics of the world’s tropics can be used to help reduce and reverse the loss of tropical forests, combat climate change, conserve biodiversity, and facilitate sustainable development for non-commercial uses.
Participants from government institutions across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbeans can apply to attend and subsequently be supported by Planet to access the full datasets and receive relevant technical supports. Targeted government institutions include and are not limited to: Ministry of Environment/Environmental Protection Agencies, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Land/Spatial Planning Authorities, Forestry Department, Conservation Department, National Statistics Offices.