Tropical Mosaics

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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3 years ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

Mapping tree cover of Africa using NICFI Data!

This week's user story is about a research titled “More than one-quarter of Africa's tree cover found outside areas previously classified as forest”, focusing on mapping the tree cover of continental Africa. It is addressed that the current monitoring systems tend to neglect the trees outside of forests, and/or consistent monitoring can be over-costly. Therefore, by developing a method to reach accurate results in analyzing tree cover in Africa, they aim to help reconsider the effects of land use and construct a new ground for climate change solutions and tree-related studies. To conduct their research, they benefited from 3-m resolution satellite imagery provided by PlanetScope

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5 days ago

Luis Ángel Aguilar‎‎ 🌱

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 (En

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2 months ago

idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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 atmosp

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3 months ago

Luisa TeixeiraPlaneteer 🌎

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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9 months ago

M. Ridza‎‎ 🌱

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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SOSOrinoco‎‎ 🌱

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.

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lp94‎‎ 🌱

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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matheus_sb‎‎ 🌱

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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emiliacdc8‎‎ 🌱

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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Dehivy‎‎ 🌱

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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Eddie Ellis

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.

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elyhienrichCommunity Manager 🌎

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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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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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andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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 mangro

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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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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Yemenengneer‎‎ 🌱

planet Basemaps for & NICFI For midel east

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

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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

📢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. Unf

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Marcos Moreu‎‎ 🌱

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 PlanetSc

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andrea.cardenasPlaneteer 🌎

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.-

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SOSOrinoco‎‎ 🌱

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,

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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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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idilgumusCommunity Manager 🌎

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!

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Gijs‎‎ 🌱

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 prediction

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elyhienrichCommunity Manager 🌎

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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