Freshwater

Natural gas and oil extraction with hydraulic fracturing – from exploration to completion

January 21, 2021/in Alerts, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil & Gas, SkyTruthing /by Dylan Thomson

By understanding the many stages of oil and gas drilling, skytruthers can detect new activity on their own using imagery on SkyTruth Alerts.

SkyTruth is working to automate the detection of drilling sites around the world using machine learning. In the meantime, intern Dylan Thomson explains what skytruthers who care about drilling in their communities should look for when using satellite imagery on SkyTruth Alerts.

2020: A Challenging Year in Review

December 28, 2020/in Alerts, Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Coal, Conservation Vision, Freshwater, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mountaintop Mining, Wildlife Conservation /by Ry Covington

SkyTruth powered through the many challenges of 2020 and emerged with new skills and tools to protect the Amazon, the oceans, and more.

In early 2019 SkyTruth announced Conservation Vision, our initiative to use machine learning to automate the analysis of the ever-growing archives of satellite imagery. These days it encompasses most, if not all, of our data science team’s work. At year’s end, SkyTruth Technical Program Director shares more about these tools and their potential impacts — along with a few other exciting developments from 2020. Please consider a donation to help us continue this work in 2021.

Conservation Vision at Work

October 28, 2020/in Alerts, Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Coal, Conservation Vision, Freshwater, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Offshore, Protected Area Monitoring /by John Amos

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!

Drilling Detection with Machine Learning Part 3: Making and mapping predictions

September 9, 2020/in Biodiversity, Climate, Conservation Vision, FrackFinder, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil & Gas, SkyTruthing /by Ry Covington

SkyTruth Technical Program Director Ry Covington, PhD explains challenges to generating meaningful predictions from the machine learning model, and outlines solutions.

SkyTruth Intern Sasha Bylsma and Geospatial Analyst Brendan Jarrell explained how we create training data and implement a machine learning model to detect oil and gas well pads.

Drilling Detection with Machine Learning Part 2: Segmentation Starter Kit

August 31, 2020/in Biodiversity, Climate, Conservation Vision, FrackFinder, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil & Gas, SkyTruthing /by Brendan Jarrell

Geospatial Analyst Brendan Jarrell explains, step-by-step, how to develop a machine learning model to detect oil and gas well pads from satellite imagery.

This is the second post in a 3-part blog series describing SkyTruth’s effort to automate the detection of oil and gas well pads around the world using machine learning. This tool will allow local communities, conservationists, researchers, policymakers and journalists to see for themselves the growth of drilling in the areas they care about.

Archive for category: Freshwater

By understanding the many stages of oil and gas drilling, skytruthers can detect new activity on their own using imagery on SkyTruth Alerts.

SkyTruth powered through the many challenges of 2020 and emerged with new skills and tools to protect the Amazon, the oceans, and more.

SkyTruth is automating image analysis for conservation.

SkyTruth Technical Program Director Ry Covington, PhD explains challenges to generating meaningful predictions from the machine learning model, and outlines solutions.

Geospatial Analyst Brendan Jarrell explains, step-by-step, how to develop a machine learning model to detect oil and gas well pads from satellite imagery.