Resource Monitoring Blog
EO Tools for Environmental Monitoring
With the introduction of environmental policies and national environmental standards (NES) comes an increasing need to monitor changes across landscapes. The Freshwater NES set requirements for carrying out certain activities that pose risks to freshwater ecosystems....
Linking Planet with Indufor’s Monitoring System
One benefit of high-revisit satellites is their ability to re-image the same location daily or weekly. In this example, we use temporal satellite observations (2016 to 2020) to track drought impact, using PlanetScope imagery to confirm the change. Working with Scion's...
Indufor’s Continuous Monitoring System
With the introduction of environmental policies comes an increasing need to monitor changes across landscapes. While high revisit satellite data is touted as providing such a solution; it is often difficult to cope with the volumes of data, filter and interpret...
Tracking Regional Harvest Levels
In this article we introduce a scaleable solution designed to track and report regional-scale forest harvesting. The spatial layers produced are summarised to an online dashboard in a format that provides information on where and how much area has been harvested over...
Mapping Native Forest using AI
In this article, we introduce a deep learning pipeline that extracts information from high-resolution aerial data. The solution extends our current machine learning processes that use an object-based approach for identifying tree seedlings using data captured by...
EnviroSatTools: A Collaborative Satellite Data Workspace for Regional Councils
The past 50 years have seen rapid changes across landscapes, with forests and wetlands alike converted for agricultural use or, conversely, re-afforested due to policy or economic drivers. While official land use maps often exist, they only provide a static, point in...