SkyTruth developed new techniques to monitor and protect the planet throughout 2020. Help us accomplish even more in 2021.
At SkyTruth we say that seeing is believing, and — even more importantly — if you can see it, you can change it. To help us continue illuminating the reality of environmental impacts on the ground in 2021, please consider making a year-end donation to SkyTruth.
Oil spills off Trinidad indicate chronic problems with infrastructure.
Although many people might not realize it, the small two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago located off Venezuela’s east coast has been involved in the fossil fuel industry for over a century. While recent media attention has focused on a listing tanker off the coast of Trinidad, SkyTruth analysis of satellite imagery reveals that oil slicks around offshore oil and gas infrastructure throughout the region is common, threatening local fisheries, fishermen, and ecosystems.
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SkyTruth is automating image analysis for conservation.
If you’d like to hear more about Conservation Vision please join me and a few of our experts at SkyTruth tomorrow (Thursday, October 29, 5-6pm Eastern) for an online presentation and Q&A we call Cutting Edge Conservation with SkyTruth. Click here to register in advance for this event – space is limited!
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Darshan Karwat wants to put social and environmental justice at the heart of engineering.
Darshan Karwat thinks big. Really big. Like as big as the cosmos. Or like reinventing an entire profession. So he asks a lot of questions. Questions that challenge conventional thinking. Questions that many people have never even thought about.
SkyTruth and partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation win funding for a public map platform to track mining in the Amazon.
On September 30, SkyTruth, along with its partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, were selected as a winner at the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge for our proposal to develop a public map that tracks mining in the Amazon using satellite radar imagery. We call this effort Project Inambari after one of the rivers in the region that has been particularly devastated by illegal and unregulated gold mining.
As a SkyTruth Intern, Matthew Ibarra learned new skills and helped protect Native lands.
As I finish up my internship at SkyTruth, I can honestly say that the experience has been everything I imagined it would be and more. My time here was a perfect amalgamation of what I love: namely, an organization that applies technology and gathers and analyzes data to protect the environment.
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Supporting SkyTruth
/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Coal, General, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Protected Area Monitoring /by John AmosSkyTruth developed new techniques to monitor and protect the planet throughout 2020. Help us accomplish even more in 2021.
At SkyTruth we say that seeing is believing, and — even more importantly — if you can see it, you can change it. To help us continue illuminating the reality of environmental impacts on the ground in 2021, please consider making a year-end donation to SkyTruth.
Owning Up to Oil: Trinidad and Tobago
/in Fishing, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill /by Sasha BylsmaOil spills off Trinidad indicate chronic problems with infrastructure.
Although many people might not realize it, the small two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago located off Venezuela’s east coast has been involved in the fossil fuel industry for over a century. While recent media attention has focused on a listing tanker off the coast of Trinidad, SkyTruth analysis of satellite imagery reveals that oil slicks around offshore oil and gas infrastructure throughout the region is common, threatening local fisheries, fishermen, and ecosystems.
Conservation Vision at Work
/in Alerts, Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Coal, Conservation Vision, Freshwater, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Offshore, Protected Area Monitoring /by John AmosSkyTruth is automating image analysis for conservation.
If you’d like to hear more about Conservation Vision please join me and a few of our experts at SkyTruth tomorrow (Thursday, October 29, 5-6pm Eastern) for an online presentation and Q&A we call Cutting Edge Conservation with SkyTruth. Click here to register in advance for this event – space is limited!
SkyTruth Board Member Darshan Karwat: Reimagining Engineering
/in Climate, Mining /by Amy MathewsDarshan Karwat wants to put social and environmental justice at the heart of engineering.
Darshan Karwat thinks big. Really big. Like as big as the cosmos. Or like reinventing an entire profession. So he asks a lot of questions. Questions that challenge conventional thinking. Questions that many people have never even thought about.
SkyTruth’s Project Inambari Wins at Artisanal Mining Challenge for Rainforest Conservation
/in Biodiversity, Conservation Vision, Mining, Protected Area Monitoring, Wildlife Conservation /by Bjorn BergmanSkyTruth and partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation win funding for a public map platform to track mining in the Amazon.
On September 30, SkyTruth, along with its partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, were selected as a winner at the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge for our proposal to develop a public map that tracks mining in the Amazon using satellite radar imagery. We call this effort Project Inambari after one of the rivers in the region that has been particularly devastated by illegal and unregulated gold mining.
Matthew Ibarra’s Final Project Was His Favorite
/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, FrackFinder, Hydraulic Fracturing, Internship /by Matthew IbarraAs a SkyTruth Intern, Matthew Ibarra learned new skills and helped protect Native lands.
As I finish up my internship at SkyTruth, I can honestly say that the experience has been everything I imagined it would be and more. My time here was a perfect amalgamation of what I love: namely, an organization that applies technology and gathers and analyzes data to protect the environment.