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New Partnership Unites Marine Governance Advocacy and Tech to Defend Indonesian Waters

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SkyTruth and Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative join forces to catch ocean polluters, improve compliance, and strengthen enforcement

SkyTruth’s efforts to hold ocean polluters accountable just received a big boost in Southeast Asia. SkyTruth and the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI), an environmental policy think tank based in Jakarta, have established a formal collaboration to detect chronic oil pollution from vessels in Indonesian waters.

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See It, Change It

Twenty years of SkyTruth success

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Satellite technology has changed but SkyTruth remains true to its core principles, with an impressive track record of holding industries and governments accountable.

As 2021 draws to a close, SkyTruth is celebrating its 20th anniversary as an environmental tech nonprofit. It’s hard for us to believe how far SkyTruth — and technology — have come in those 20 years, and how much we have accomplished. In 2022 we’re poised to grow even more; doubling the size of the SkyTruth team and magnifying our ability to use technology to promote conservation for people and the planet. Read on to join us on our journey from very humble beginnings to high-tech innovators. 

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Tech Tools

Tracking vegetation trends along the Colorado River: Part 4

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Looking ahead to monitoring habitat changes in 2022

SkyTruth’s Technical Director Dr. Ry Covington provides a preview of our land use change detection work for 2022. This is the fourth post in a four-part blog series.

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Tracking vegetation trends along the Colorado River: Part 3

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Vegetation trends in SkyTruth Alerts make it easy for river restoration advocates to track progress and prioritize projects.

Welcome to the third post in our four-part series on tracking vegetation trends along the Colorado River. In this post, I’ll walk through how to access and use the project’s outputs in SkyTruth Alerts for those  interested in diving in and working with the data on a map. 

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Tech Tools

Remote sensing for road detection Part 1: First steps

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SkyTruth’s team of interns built a machine learning model to detect one of the holy grails of conservation: roads

Road construction often precedes harmful activities like mining, drilling, logging, and poaching. And so detecting new road construction is one of the holy grails of conservation. This blog post describes how SkyTruth interns adapted previous SkyTruth work on oil and gas drilling sites to detecting roads.

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