Planet Partners with the UAE Space Agency to Build Satellite Data-driven Loss and Damage Atlas for Climate Resilience
May 25 2023 - 5:33AM
Business Wire
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, today announced its partnership with the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency, to build a regional
satellite data-driven loss and damage atlas for climate change
resilience. The initiative aims to provide data to a select country
facing high degrees of climate risk to help build resilience, make
informed policy decisions, and stimulate financial programs for
climate adaptation and mitigation.
The data facility plans to initially focus on compiling data for
a select climate-vulnerable country for purposes of quantifying
damages caused by extreme weather events, such as floods and
drought and helping to establish early-warning systems. With access
to high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data and analytical
tools, the goal is to make these foundational datasets available to
governments, NGOs, and related parties so that they can develop
insights on climate-related topics like population distribution,
wildfire and flood risks, agricultural productivity and food
security, and physical assets.
“Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we as a planet
have ever faced, and it’s critical that vulnerable countries are
able to have real, tangible insights to build resilience,” said
Will Marshall, Planet co-founder and CEO. “Satellite data can help
to capture those insights and to help build early warning systems
for climate risks, but we can’t do it alone. We are proud of our
partnership with the UAE Space Agency to get this data into the
hands of important participants.”
Planet is set to provide key data assets and capabilities for
this atlas, including:
- Access to PlanetScope satellite data for the exemplary country,
to leverage a near-daily country-level imagery scan, at 3 meter
resolution, and see gradual change happening, such as coastal
erosion.
- SkySat Tasking capabilities, to identify specific areas of
interest and capture fine details, at 50 centimeter resolution, of
swiftly changing events, such as the immediate impacts of flooding
damage.
- Use of the Roads and Building Change Detection analytics feed,
to receive AI-enhanced insights on rapid urban growth in regions
facing climate risk.
- Access to the Soil Moisture Content Planetary Variables data
feed, to monitor near-daily changes in soil moisture, at 100 meters
per pixel, in regions such as agricultural lands threatened by
drought.
- Insights from the Land Surface Temperature Planetary Variables
data feed, to illuminate temperature fluctuations over time, such
as climate change-induced rising urban and rural heat.
- With partners, provide technical training and engagement with
end-user organizations, through webinars, on-site training, and
engagement with local universities and academic partners to ensure
the data is used effectively.
“This project is an act of data diplomacy from the UAE to a
country facing disproportionate risks from climate change, and it’s
vital to help it access the digital tools and resources to manage
for a sustainable and secure future. The UAE government has made
sustainability and preserving the environment top priorities,
reflected by launching the UAE Net Zero by 2050 strategic
initiative nationally. In line with this direction, the UAE Space
Agency has launched several initiatives and projects to ensure that
we are doing our part and further driving the global journey
towards sustainability, and support of the Climate Change
initiatives,” said H.E. Salem Butti Al Qubaisi, Director General of
the UAE Space Agency.
This project was conceived in response to several COP27 (the
2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference) initiatives,
including the decision to accelerate the implementation of the
Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage where developed
nations have been urged to extend financial aid, technology, and
expertise to developing countries to tackle the loss and damage
resulting from climate change. Additionally, the atlas’s objectives
align with the World Meteorological Organization’s Early Warning
Systems for All initiative, aiming to enhance the availability and
accessibility of early warning systems for hazards such as extreme
weather, water, and climate-related events in climate-vulnerable
countries.
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