How Norway's NICFI Satellite Data Program is helping reduce tropical forest deforestation
- Paper number
GLOC-2023,T,IP,x74727
- Author
Ms. Charlotte Bishop, Kongsberg Satellite Services AS, Norway
- Year
2023
- Abstract
Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) funded Satellite Data Program provides comprehensive access to high resolution satellite imagery across tropical forest regions on a monthly basis. The program, starting in 2020 and run by KSAT with partners Planet and Airbus, releases a monthly mosaic across more than 45 million sq km each month, incorporating over 97 tropical forest countries and has well over 15000 registered users in its first 2 years who are making use of this data to meet their goals of reducing, and reversing, tropical forest deforestation. This unique and unprecedented program provides a step change in Earth Observation which has typically seen commercial satellite data behind complex barriers of licensing and cost making it often difficult to use by those that could benefit most. This presentation will focus on showcasing how the data offered in this program, through a tiered access system, is already supporting tropical forest countries, indigenous communities, NGOs, Research and the Private Sector to collectively come together with a common goal and better meet their own monitoring and reporting obligations with the help of high resolution satellite imagery.
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