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Luisa TeixeiraPlaneteer 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

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.

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2 years ago

Luis Ángel Aguilar‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

Best workflow for inspecting 14,000 plots (Costa Rica, 4 dates) with 5 interpreters in QGIS/Collect Earth — tile streaming or Visual Quad download?

Hi everyone,Project snapshot AOI: Costa Rica (~51,000 km²) Plots: 14,000 (1 ha each) Dates to inspect: Jan-2021, Jan-2022, Jan-2023, Jan-2024 Tools: Collect Earth Desktop + QGIS Team: 5 interpreters working in parallel Current plan: Insights Platform – Basic (70 k PU/month, 500 PU/min) Issue With Visual-tile streaming (1 PU/tile) we exhausted the quota in a week. Usage dashboard has shown 0 PU and only 9 requests for several days (possible burst-triggered block). We need to restart work and pick a workflow that won’t hit the limit again. Options I’m considering Stay with streaming but upgrade temporarily (Enterprise S or L) and add a caching proxy. Download all Visual Quads (Basemap Global) and serve them via MapProxy/GeoServer; work offline. Use NICFI quads (1,500 PU/quad) only in forest zones and Basemap Global elsewhere. Push quads to GEE and let interpreters view via Earth Engine. Key questions What workflow do others use when multiple analysts review large visu

1 hour ago

Luisa TeixeiraPlaneteer 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

NICFI Satellite Data Program prolongs public access to high-resolution rainforest satellite images

📣Exciting news! We are delighted to announce that the NICFI Satellite Data Program is extended until January 2025.🌍🛰️🌱Follow the link for more information: https://www.nicfi.no/2024/09/17/nicfi-prolongs-public-access-to-high-resolution-rainforest-satellite-images/

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2 months ago

M. Ridza‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

UDM 2.1 and Basemaps

Hi,I was reading through UDM 2.1 and I was wondering if this data was available for the base maps. If not is there a way to quantify clouds and haze for a certain section of the base maps through NCFI?Let me know if that makes sense.

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5 months ago

SOSOrinoco‎‎ 🌱

posted in Tropical Basemaps

Monitoring and detection of burned areas and fires in the Venezuelan Amazon

2024 has witnessed an alarming increase in vegetation fires in the Venezuelan Amazon. Using Landsat satellite data and NICFI-Planet data we conducted a spatial analysis.The results revealed that an area of at least 12,250 km² was impacted by fires between March and May 2024, of which more than 80% corresponded to fires of moderate or high severity. In addition, when analyzing vegetation cover, we identified that herbaceous vegetation and agricultural areas were the most affected, followed by forests.Area burned, in hectares and by land cover/land use category, for the Venezuelan Amazon.The increase in the extent and severity of these fires is not an isolated phenomenon. Our findings suggest that this situation is fundamentally caused by human activities. On the one hand, uncontrolled activities such as the expansion of illegal mining and the agricultural frontier have progressively degraded the habitat, creating a favorable environment for the spread of fire. Tolerance, and in some cas

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6 months ago

lp94‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

Possible to access biannual normalized SR basemaps for recent years?

Hello! I am working with NICFI normalized SR basemaps for Meghalaya, India with data from 2022-2024. Meghalaya has lots of cloud cover, and the monthly basemaps often have areas obscured with clouds. Does Planet produce biannual or quarterly basemaps for years since 2020 that are possible to access? I haven’t seen any on the Basemaps Viewer, but I’m hoping to access them because I imagine that cloud cover might be less of a problem when aggregating across several months. Other thoughts on how best to deal with cloud cover would also be very welcome! Specifically, we are trying to measure forest cover over time. Thank you so much!

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8 months ago

matheus_sb‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

Inquiry Regarding Extension of the NICFI Satellite Data Program

Dear NICFI Team,I recently read that the NICFI Satellite Data Program is set to continue only until September 2024, as mentioned here (https://www.planet.com/pulse/nicfi-satellite-data-program-partners-and-users-continue-to-deliver-conservation-climate-solutions-and-impacts/).Could you please confirm if there are plans to extend the program beyond this date? If so, could you share the anticipated timeline for the extension?Thank you for your assistance.Best regards,

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8 months ago

emiliacdc8‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

How to locate regions with sugarcane soil cover?

I wanted to find sugarcane growing regions, and then download images of the regions of interest. Would it be possible to do this through the Planet platform?

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9 months ago

Dehivy‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

About the monthly planet mosaics (NICFI)

I need a history of satellite images but when I download only the monthly mosaics are there, is there a way to get the daily satellite images that make up the planet mosaics?

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9 months ago

Eddie Ellis

published in Tropical Basemaps

Developing SICAMFOR: Leveraging Collect Earth, Google Earth Engine, and Planet NICFI Basemaps to Monitor Forest Changes in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula

The Yucatán Peninsula houses the Maya Forest, the second-largest forested area in the Americas after the Amazon. This region plays a critical role in biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and supporting forest-dependent communities. However, between 2001 and 2020, over one million hectares were deforested. Annual forest loss across Mexico's dry and humid tropical forests, predominantly in the Yucatán Península, is estimated up to 100,000 hectares a year.Yet, despite this loss, localized recovery and conservation initiatives, such as sustainable forest management and traditional land use practices, provide hope for the region's forest cover. In response to the need for accurate and reliable data to evaluate these changes, SICAMFOR (Sistema de Información sobre Cambios en la Cobertura Forestal) was developed by the NGO Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) to monitor forest cover changes in the Yucatán Peninsula.SICAMFOR uses Collect Earth Online (CEO)

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9 months ago

elyhienrichCommunity Manager 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

New Planet University Course: Intro to NICFI Basemaps

Check out this new course on Planet University! This course is an introduction to the NICFI Basemaps, familiarizes you with the NICFI Satellite Data program, types of NICFI Basemaps, overviews the tools to access NICFI basemaps, and offers use cases to best utilize NICFI data. Access it here: Intro to NICFI Basemaps

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1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

published in Tropical Basemaps

Learn from a NICFI Satellite Data Program User! Rainforest Foundation US Workflow using NICFI Imagery

Watch the Rainforest Foundation US Workflow using NICFI Imagery webinar on Planet University! In this webinar you can learn about what they do, how they use the NICFI satellite Data Program, online and offline, to monitor, investigate, validate and gather evidence on deforestation events in Indigenous Communities territories in Guyana.

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1 year ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

published in Tropical Basemaps

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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1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

published in Tropical Basemaps

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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1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

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!

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1 year ago

Yemenengneer‎‎ 🌱

asked in Tropical Basemaps

planet Basemaps for & NICFI For midel east

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

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1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

📢Call for help!📢

One of the members of the NICFI Satellite Data Program asks for support on how to run code, at scale, in Google Earth Engine. If you have experienced and solved a similar problem, let us know if you are able to help! You can also check out this thread.“Currently, I am engaged in a significant endeavor to map forest cover. I am utilizing images from the multispectral Planet mosaics as part of the NICFI initiative, which has proven to be a valuable resource for this activity. However, I am facing significant challenges in processing this data at a national scale, particularly in terms of excessive resource consumption, such as memory, when conducting large-scale analyses (800k sqkm) on the GEE platform. Within the scope of this project, I have been trying to divide the national surface area down to the provincial level to address this issue. Unfortunately, I am still encountering considerable memory overruns. I would like to inquire whether you might have any suggestions for optimizing t

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1 year ago

Marcos Moreu‎‎ 🌱

published in Tropical Basemaps

Satellite EO for Ground EO: Pilot in Ethiopia

Indexing the Earth requires satellite data and ground data, but the latter are lacking. Satellite imagery allows us to observe from above the places that we mainly observe from the ground. This gives us a unique perspective of the places where we live, and an advantage to better understand our changing environment as compared to our ancestors who observed the Earth from the ground only. Now, the problem is that the systems that we are building to monitor the planet use mainly this new perspective from above, but not the perspective from the ground. Remote sensing cannot capture information such as the use of a building, a pond or a (sacred) tree; or crop and livestock diseases; or biodiversity under the tree canopy; or where are the fuzzy boundaries of a grazing or hunting area. Understanding land use change requires, fundamentally, land user-generated information.The figure above shows the map created by agro-pastoralists communities in South West Ethiopia (left), a PlanetScope scene

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1 year ago

andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

NICFI Satellite Data Program is Now on GitHub

Exciting news to share on this week's community post! NICFI Satellite Data Program has recently joined the GitHub community 🚀📦 Check Out Our Repositories:-Codes-Repository: This repository is filled with open-source code that NICFI users have developed, providing a wealth of knowledge for those looking to learn more or contribute to their projects.-Scientific-Publications: The publications repository features research papers that use NICFI Basemaps. Explore to gain valuable insights into the latest research in the field of forest conservation.🤝 Follow us and contributeWe encourage you to check out NICFI's GitHub account. Follow the account and contribute to our Repositories.

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1 year ago

SOSOrinoco‎‎ 🌱

published in Tropical Basemaps

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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1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

published in Tropical Basemaps

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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1 year ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

published in Tropical Basemaps

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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1 year ago

Gijs‎‎ 🌱

published in Tropical Basemaps

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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1 year ago

elyhienrichCommunity Manager 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

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

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2 years ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

posted in Tropical Basemaps

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

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