Harmful Algal Blooms

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.

What’s In the Water? An Analysis of Harmful Algal Blooms Using Remote Sensing

November 23, 2020/in Harmful Algal Blooms /by Brendan Jarrell

SkyTruth worked with researchers at Kent State University to detect toxic algal blooms quickly and easily from space using Google Earth Engine.

A few weeks ago, SkyTruth co-hosted a virtual meetup at Google’s Geo for Good Summit with our partners at Kent State University (KSU) to present our work identifying harmful algal blooms (HABs) using Google Earth Engine and satellite imagery. In this post, Geospatial Analyst Brendan Jarrell shares how we made detecting HABs quicker, easier, and more accessible to others.

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!

SkyTruth 2020: What to Expect in the New Year

January 21, 2020/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Conservation Vision, Freshwater, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Natural Gas, Oceans, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Protected Area Monitoring, Public Lands /by Amy Mathews

Oil pollution at sea, mountaintop mining, Conservation Vision and more on SkyTruth’s agenda.

SkyTruth followers know that we generated a lot of momentum in 2019, laying the groundwork for major impact in 2020. Here’s a quick list of some of our most important projects underway for the new year: stopping oil pollution at sea, protecting wildlife, identifying poorly reclaimed mine sites, characterizing harmful algal blooms from space, and revealing fossil fuel drilling on public lands.

NJ Beach-goers Sharing the Ocean With Algae Today

August 23, 2011/in Harmful Algal Blooms, Incidents, Oceans /by Teri Biebel

According to this news story from MSNBC, there is a sizeable algae bloom off the New Jersey coastline today, and judging from the image from MODIS, they’re not kidding. The article states that the size of the bloom is over 100 miles and could cause a dead zone off the coast once the algae dies […]

Harmful Algal Blooms

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

SkyTruth worked with researchers at Kent State University to detect toxic algal blooms quickly and easily from space using Google Earth Engine.

SkyTruth is automating image analysis for conservation.

Oil pollution at sea, mountaintop mining, Conservation Vision and more on SkyTruth’s agenda.