Conserving what's left, renewal, growing new ones, and hearing from the many peoples facing loss of their communities due to the mismanagement and exploitation of forests this special collection gets its start with the launch of the Global Forest Watch (GFW)
GFW is a project where the World Resource Institute brought together fourteen major sponsors, including Rebecca Moore of Google Earth who pioneered the use of mapping to protect our lands and people, enables our citizens to participate in and benefit from an "open data approach in putting decision-relevant information in the hands of governments, companies, NGOs, and the public."
Related special collection on Earthsayers.tv is Biodiversity, Rights of Mother Earth, and the sustainability champion, Julia Butterfly.
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Mapping the Worldâs Trees in Unprecedented Detail with AI |
WRIâs Global Restoration Initiative and researchers from Land & Carbon Lab have partnered with Meta to develop a groundbreaking AI foundation model that weâve used to produce the worldâs first global map of tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale. This new high-resolution data sets a baseline for remotely monitoring changes at the level of individual trees, making it a critical advancement for measuring land use emissions and tracking progress on conservation and restoration projects, which are essential for achieving the worldâs goals for climate, nature and people. While this initial data set has limitations, it demonstrates the power of foundation models â a type of AI model that can serve as the âfoundationâ for a variety of tasks â to pave a new path toward AI-driven earth monitoring. Find out more in our blog: https://www.landcarbonlab.org/news-updates/mapping-trees-unprecedented-detail-ai EarthSayers John Brandt; Justine Spore |
Fighting wildfires with intelligent robots | AI for Good Webinar
The Forest is For All of Us by Community Leader Domingo Peas
Kayapo leader Megaron Txukaramae
Of Forests and Men with Edward Norton
Buying-up Eden - Chile
The Paradigm Project by Greg Spencer
Woodlands of Ireland by Eco-Eye
Climate change and forest managment Stéphane Le Goaster
What does He Plant Who Plants a Tree read by Jeremy Irons
Amazon Watch, your best bet to protect the rainforest.
High Conservation Value Forests
The Reunion by Handcrafted Films
Save Ireland Forests
Screams of the Amazon by Fundacion Pachamama
Tourism, not Oil by Hilario Saant of Ecuador
Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon and Culture
Excerpts from Two Speeches by Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin
Global Forest Watch | Monitoring Forests in Near Real Time
Google Earth Engine by Rebecca Moore
Global Forest Watch 2.0 preview at UN Forum on Forests
Rapid, Dramatic Changes in What We Do by Randy Hayes
Mapping the Worldâs Trees in Unprecedented Detail with AI
Voices for Global Forest Watch by the WRI
Altkin Count Strategic Forestry Plan
Rang-tan in My Bedroom by Iceland Foods
On mapping and protecting our Forests by Rebecca Moore:
Twenty Years of Defending the Amazon.