Overview
Remote sensing, combined with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), uses satellite or aerial imagery to map and analyse landscapes. This technology aids in efforts such as habitat mapping, land use assessment, and spatial planning for conservation initiatives.
Products
View all 131 Remote sensing GIS products
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InVEST
InVEST® is a suite of free, open-source software models used to map and value the goods and services from nature that sustain and fulfill human life.
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Kelp Watch
Our researchers have demonstrated that by analyzing satellite imagery of coastal waters with machine learning algorithms, it’s possible to estimate the presence and size of kelp forests, and observe how they change over time.
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Global Ecosystems Atlas
The Global Ecosystems Atlas is a versatile platform for identifying distribution of different ecosystem types, supporting conservation and restoration efforts, informing environmental management decisions, conducting research, and aiding in environmental and corporate reporting.
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Planet-NICFI Basemaps
Through Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative (NICFI), users can access free of charge Planet’s high-resolution (<5m per pixel), analysis-ready mosaics of the world’s tropics in order to help reduce and reverse the loss of tropical forests for non commercial uses.
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REDD+AI
REDD+AI is the first system to quantify and map tropical forest degradation globally. The open platform includes maps and statistics to show how much forest degradation can be attributed to logging, forest fire, and roads for every tropical forest country.
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Earth Blox
Earth Blox transforms complex nature and climate data into clear, decision-ready insights for risk mitigation, regulatory compliance and opportunity identification. It helps teams act with confidence in a world where environmental insight drives business success.
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Discussion
Online Ocean-Focused GIS Course
Liz Ferguson
Hello WILDLABS Community, Ocean Science Analytics recently launched an ocean-focused course for those interested in learning how to use the open access geospatial tool, QGIS!...
Discussion
Anyone using InVEST?
Elsa Carla De Grandi
InVEST 3.16.0 has been release! with a new Plugin feature. From the InVEST Workbench users can install a 3rd party InVEST-like model which can be...
Career Opportunity
Join us to turn environmental insight into real-world action
Cassie Anderson
Earth Blox is growing — discover roles where your skills can help organisations make nature and sustainability part of everyday decisions.
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Reviews
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Easy to use / Free to use / Resource intensive /Full Review
Overall, this is a great and easy-to-use open-source software. Models can be run either through a graphical user interface or via the Python API, offering flexibility for users with different levels of...
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Complete / Comprehensive / Free to use /Full Review
GFW is an an incredible data analysis and visualization tool with tons of different geospatial layers integrated into it (e.g., those from U Maryland's GLAD lab, WRI's Land & Carbon Lab, etc.). I also...
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Free to use / Good value for money / Incomplete / Not comprehensive /Full Review
Great product for visualizing forest loss that's update and, when you sign up, email alerts. It's not entirely easy or clear how to download data once you create an area of interest or that could be behind...
Organisations
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World Wildlife Fund
WWF is one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, working in nearly 100 countries for over half a century to help people and nature thrive.
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Land & Carbon Lab
LCL harnesses the latest AI and satellite imagery to create data that provides unprecedented transparency about the world’s land and nature-based carbon.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI)
The ABMI is a non-profit, value-neutral biodiversity and land cover monitoring organization in Alberta, Canada. We have over 15 years of data freely available for use and download by anyone for any purpose.
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Dendroyka
Dendroyka is a conservation technology company that builds "Landscape", land conservation software. We focus on improving the accuracy and efficiency of land protection and management work, so that organizations can focus on their mission of land conservation.
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