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Luisa TeixeiraPlaneteer 🌎

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NICFI Satellite Data Program on Twitter

You can now find the NICFI Satellite Data Program on Twitter! Follow @NICFISatData to stay up to date, and retweet the Program to help us reach a wider audience.

1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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Frequently Asked Questions about the NICFI Data Program

Frequently Asked Questions about the NICFI Data Program What exactly are the data products offered by this program?This program makes high-resolution (<5m per pixel) optical satellite imagery of the tropics freely available to all in the pursuit of helping stop deforestation and combat climate change. The products include PlanetScope Visual Mosaics and PlanetScope Surface Reflectance Mosaics:PlanetScope Visual Mosaics are optimized for visual display and interpretation, Visual Mosaics offer a ‘true-color’ representation of spatially accurate data with minimized haze, illumination, and topographic effects. These are ideal for users visually monitoring or interpreting satellite imagery. PlanetScope Surface Reflectance Mosaics (Analysis Ready) are optimized for scientific and quantitative analysis, these mosaics offer an analytic or ‘ground truth’ representation of spatially accurate data with minimized effects of atmosphere and sensor characteristics. These include a fourth band (near

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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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Videos created by NICFI users in different languages!

Did you know that there are several public videos created by NICFI users in different languages about the NICFI Satellite Data program? Some examples:Here is a recently shared video in Indonesian created by a NICFI User demonstrating how to sign up as well as check the imagery in Planet Explorer, GEE and QGIS. You can find NICFI videos in Spanish on this link.Follow this thread on Twitter for more NICFI videos in other languages!

2 months ago

Yemenengneer‎‎ 🌱

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planet Basemaps for & NICFI For midel east

Why I can,t find planet Basemaps for & NICFI For midel east

2 months ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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SOSOrinoco‎‎ 🌱

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A virtual flyover of illegal mining activity in the Upper Caroní River Basin (Venezuelan Amazonia)

The Venezuelan government makes it practically impossible to fly in Southern Venezuela, so we wanted to create a virtual flyover of the Venezuelan Amazon to show the areas affected by illegal gold mining activity in the upper Caroní River basin. We partnered with VE360 to make the video. The SOSOrinoco team to selected and downloaded Planet-NICFI monthly basemaps in the Basemaps viewer on the Planet Explorer web. Using the free program QGIS and a computer capable of handling the nearly 90GB of data, the team made 5 mosaics, representing close to 50,000km2 of real-world terrain. One of the problems we encountered was the selection of the appropriate images due to the high cloud cover in the basin, which could only be achieved with the monthly mosaics that present images with the least amount of cloud cover possible, since they are a summary of the best daily PlanetScope images. We used the layer of mining activities surveyed in this basin to date by SOSOrinoco using Planet Explorer imag

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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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Analyzing Forest Cover in Indonesia with Planet-NICFI and Sentinel-2 Data

A research group mapped the forest cover of Indonesia based on combined Planet-NICFI and Sentinel-2 data. They benefited from the random forest approach. One of their objectives is to show how this method is simple and efficient for image classification as well as to achieve a high accuracy in classification by implementing high-quality image data. They evaluated their dataset to assess model performance and compared it with another forest cover dataset. Check out their research in more detail, and stay tuned for the upcoming user stories!

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andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Global Mangrove Watch: Safeguarding Nature with Satellite Technology

Today we would like to introduce Global Mangrove Watch, an advanced online platform offering comprehensive data and cutting-edge tools for monitoring mangroves worldwide, all derived from satellite imagery. This platform provides a wealth of datasets, including essential information on mangrove habitat extent, net change, and habitat evolution. Additionally, it offers valuable spatial insights into species distribution by country.One of the most remarkable features of Global Mangrove Watch is its provision of accurate information regarding mangrove deforestation alerts. This is achieved by pinpointing areas with a high probability of change in mangrove forest cover, visualized through an informative heat map.To ensure precision and reliability, Global Mangrove Watch leverages data from Landsat 8, Sentinel 1, and Sentinel 2, enabling the identification and monitoring of mangroves with unmatched precision and efficiency.Commemorating Mangrove Day, Global Mangrove Watch released its integ

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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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NICFI Data Program Partners And Users Continue To Deliver Conservation & Climate Solutions

In its fourth year, NICFI Satellite Data Program continues to provide access to Planet’s high-resolution satellite monitoring to help reduce tropical forest loss. Check out this Planet Pulse article written by Tara O’Shea (Senior Global Director of Forests and Land Use at Planet) to read about recent user stories and events! Some highlights: “The Bolivian Association for the Research and Conservation of Andean-Amazonian Ecosystems (ACEAA) is incorporating the data into monitoring systems that strengthen indigenous territory surveillance and sustainable forest management. The Norwegian University of Life Sciences is advancing our understanding of how land cover land use changes affect water quality and provision services in Ethiopia. The Global Forest Observations Initiative at UN-FAO, where representatives from the governments of Ecuador, Lao PDR, and Uganda demonstrated how the data is supporting their Ministries of Environment in meeting Reduced Emission from Deforestation and Forest

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Gijs‎‎ 🌱

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Using NICFI Satellite Data to Help Monitor Tree Health and Stress in Reforestation Projects

For reforestation projects, it is vital to monitor the impact of environmental parameters on plant health and stress and to assist with the forest maintenance of the sites. To help monitor the sites, we built time series models for temperature, precipitation, and several vegetation indices to create a baseline for site-specific growing conditions.We compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from the high-resolution image data provided by Planet (through the NICFI Basemaps for Tropical Forest Monitoring program) and use this as the primary indicator for site development. The spectral bands in the NICFI dataset allow us to calculate other indexes, as shown in the following image, and we use the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (MSAVI2) to enforce the predictions.The Modified Triangular Vegetation Index (MTVI2) could also be a good regressor in the prediction of NDVI in the reforested plot, but as the figure shows, the M

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elyhienrichCommunity Manager 🌎

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Sentinel Hub Landing Page in Planet University

Check out the new Sentinel Hub Enablement Resources landing page in Planet University! Access the following resources:Technical Documentation Customer Education Resources Sentinel Hub Blog Sentinel Hub Community Forum & Support Help

9 months ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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Mangrove Restoration using NICFI data

INVEMAR has benefited from Planet data in various projects, including mangrove restoration, disaster assessment (post-hurricane Julia) in mangroves and seabeds, and mapping mangrove cover in specific areas of the country. As for the viewer tools they created, daily images and monthly Planet mosaics have been used to analyze the temporal dynamics of coastal marine ecosystems such as mangroves. The products have been collected in ArcGIS Pro and QGIS and processed in GEE to improve the scale of some current developments. Among the projects for which the NICFI Satellite Data Program continues to contribute are mangrove restoration monitoring with the Colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS), ecosystem-based adaptation for protection against coastal erosion in a changing climate of MADS and the German Development Bank (KfW), mangrove map of Colombia 2020, and Vida Manglar (Cispatá Blue Carbon Project). Besides, NICFI provides input for reports on the state of mar

10 months ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Indigenous Peoples moving power climate action

Indigenous peoples and local communities are essential to preserving and protecting the world's lands and ecosystems. Because of their reliance on and intimate contact with the environment and its resources, they are among the first to experience the direct effects of climate change (UN, 2007). The importance and potential of including their knowledge and expertise are vital to developing and implementing national policies and agendas to support the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (IPCC AR6). This week, we’re focusing on the organizations that work with indigenous people using the NICFI Data Program, demonstrating their active roles in helping to safeguard the ecosystems that inhabit their lands and territories.As a Level 2 user, the Nature Conservancy utilizes NICFI basemaps and daily imagery to correlate Sentinel-1 SAR data and detect/verify logging roads in Central Africa: this data and the corresponding tool support indigenous communities that are logging and sustainably uti

10 months ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Affected Ethiopian Agro-Pastoralists' Crisis Mapping

In recent years, the effects of droughts, aggravated by climate change, have increased in frequency and magnitude, affecting people's livelihoods and food security. Therefore, the "Crowdmapping for Food Security in the Horn of Africa" program aims to address this issue by using cutting-edge technology and community mapping to create an early warning system in Ethiopia’s Lowe Omo Valley. Marcos Moreu, a researcher at UCL, explained the science behind FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) in a blogpost. The tool's main goal is to assist land users in producing terrestrial data so that maps combining satellite and user-generated data from the ground can be more locally relevant. This concept incorporates NICFI Basemaps, allowing participants to localize, on and off-site, the state of resources and map the natural resources to which they have access in an effort to better manage their resources and offer information to assess the severity of the disaster. The researcher highlight

11 months ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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Monitoring of protected areas: Central African Republic and Mozambique

African Parks is an NGO that helps in the rehabilitation and long-term management of national parks in partnership with governments and local communities. They manage national parks and protected areas in 12 countries, including Angola, Benin, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. You can check out the organization’s website. In the NICFI Survey carried out in November 2022, they noted they use NICFI Basemaps in GEE to monitor the protected area landscapes they manage in the Central African Republic and Mozambique. More specifically, NICFI basemaps are central to developing a detailed map of the Chinko landscape in the Central African Republic in GEE by combining them with Sentinel-2 data. This data fusion enhanced the resulting vegetation map allowing them to better distinguish between wet and dry forests, woodlands and wet and dry grasslands.

11 months ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Deforestation Early Warning System in Mexico

CONAFOR, a NICFI level 2 user, uses NICFI Basemaps through QGIS and GEE. They adjusted their workflow so that calibration processes of change detection are performed in PS images. Additionally, they evaluate deforestation alerts for monitoring specific change processes such as settlements and illegal airstrips. Another use of individual Planet imagery is to conduct tests to understand possible underestimates of forest cover loss due to the spatial resolution of Sentinel 2 imagery. For this purpose, they have run change detection algorithms in different images to check the best performance. Finally, they mentioned they have also consumed planet images through the Google Earth Engine tool to generate exploratory change analysis.Here you can see one of their Early Warning Reports on Deforestation. In this one, they focus on Montes Azules and Calakmul.If you like to know more about their work, please follow this link.Taken from CONAFOR - General Partner Reporting to NICFI, November 2022

1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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Analyzing Deforestation in Brazil through Planet-NICFI Basemaps

This week, we’re going to Brazil! Since 2019, deforestation in Brazil has reached record levels. Even only in 2021, more than 13,000 sq km of the Brazilian Amazon were cleared. This was the highest total in 15 years. According to projections, total deforestation will reach almost 15,000 sq km by 2022.InfoAmazonia and PlenaMata examined Planet-NICFI basemaps from 2018 to 2022 and focused on critical areas that helped illustrate how the previous government had a destructive effect on the Amazon.You can check out this link for more information and see how NICFI data is used to detect deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

1 year ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Vegetation loss detection - Earth Day Month

Next, for Earth Day this month , we will go to Ethiopia, where a NICFI user is using data to pursue NICFI Strategic Objectives 3 "Effective international incentive structures to reduce deforestation in tropical forest countries" and 4. "Increased transparency in land management, land use, value chains and finance". The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) reported on their work in the November 2022 survey. With NICFI program data products, including Planet Scope mosaics and Planet Daily images, they conduct visual validation of deforestation alerts, land use/land cover analysis and report on potential drivers of deforestation (e.g., agricultural, illegal logging, mining or natural causes) in Ethiopia.They stream and use the data in Google Earth Engine, QGIS plugin, Collect Earth Online, and Global Forest Change to carry out this.In their response, they mentioned, "Our institute appreciates the continued availability of these images and plans to support nati

1 year ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Mangrove ecosystem assessment - Earth Day Month

For this month's earth day we will report on user stories from around the world and how they use NICFI maps in their workflow.In this first story, we’re going to Indonesia, where Astraea in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy are developing pond and mangrove analyses. They are studying mangrove distribution and canopy cover under the Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration Alliance (MERA) program and other programs that require analysis of this critical ecosystem.Being part of user level 2, the experts explain that they use single images (for small areas) and create mosaics themselves if they need a large area containing a lot of scene data. However, for the use of base maps, these are downloaded for quick validation and evaluation of the study area.If you like to know more about their work, please follow this link Taken from Indonesia Oceans Program team - Astraea - General Partner Reporting November 2022 to NICFI.

1 year ago

Luisa TeixeiraPlaneteer 🌎

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NICFI Satellite Data Program 4th year extension confirmed!

1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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NICFI Satellite Data Program - 2022 Q4 Update

You can read the NICFI Satellite Data Program Quarterly Reports here. Go to the page and scroll down to see all available reports! 😊

1 year ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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MAAP Project & Deforestation in mining corridor of Peruvian Amazon

The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), run by Amazon Conservation Association, was launched in 2015. The project delivers actionable data from multiple satellite sources for local governments and people to detect deforestation. It currently covers 83% of the Amazon in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. This week’s user story is about deforestation in the southern Peruvian Amazon, where gold mining is one of the critical reasons for deforestation in the region. The last status of deforestation in the Mining Corridor of Madre de Dios was highlighted in the MAAP article published in December 2022. As agriculture is another reason for deforestation in the area, the researchers distinguished mining deforestation. Using NICFI-Planet monthly mosaics, they detect total deforestation of 16,000 hectares in the Mining Corridor over the past two years (2021 - 2022). Besides, the area of direct mining deforestation is 11,2000 hectares. Click here to check out the report and

1 year ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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Forest Assessment in Guatemala using NICFI Data

Guatemala's National Forest Institute (INAB) uses Planet NICFI data to complement its forest assessment and offer Forest Incentives. This system reinforces the National Forestry Incentives System that has existed for over 20 years.Their activities include the use of NICFI Basemaps in GEE for mapping forest cover of Pinabet (Abies guatemalensis) coniferous and broadleaf species in Western Guatemala for the year 2020 and to map the dry forest in Guatemala in 2020 and analyze the areas of change (losses and gains) in 8 municipalities for the period 2018-2020-2022. You can have a look at their results at the following link.Additionally, they use Planet images to monitor hotspots in Guatemalan territory. This analysis is carried out to have a quantity of burned area during the reports of fires attended by INAB.If you like to know more about their work, please follow these links (1 & 2).

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