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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global. To learn more about the impact of Planet data on forestry and carbon credits, read our previous blog about Pachama, a carbon credits marketplace supporting forests in North and South America.

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Carbon Mapper data from the Tanager-1 satellite reveals methane and carbon dioxide super-emitter activity around the world

Planet Pulse

Validation efforts include comparing methane emissions detected by Tanager-1 with those from coordinated under-flights with methane-sensing aircraft and controlled release testing where ground teams release precisely metered amounts of methane while the satellite images. During a single overpass on Oct.

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Planet Launches First Tanager-1 Hyperspectral Satellite and 36 SuperDoves with SpaceX

Planet Pulse

Future Tanager imagery will be analyzed by expert scientists at Carbon Mapper for methane and CO2 source detection and quantification, meanwhile we at Planet will commercialize the hyperspectral data for a variety of use cases including defense and intelligence monitoring, biodiversity assessments, mineral mapping, and water quality assessments.

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Planet Announces New Details of Hyperspectral Offering

Planet Pulse

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands.

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Key aspects of smart water meter reliability for African water utilities

Smart Energy International

The conventional standard ISO4064/OIML R49 mainly refers to the metering and mechanical features of the water meter, such as R100 or R160, the length of the meter is 165mm or 190mm. There is currently no unified standard for smart water meters except IEC62055-41,51 which is the standard for STS prepayment functions.

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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

In the past four years, as the situation has improved in Southeast Asia, it has gotten worse in Brazil and other parts of South America as ranchers and land speculators convert forests into cattle pastures. Mighty Earth, or another watchdog, wil now alert big palm-oil buyers and prompt a crackdown.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged

You wouldn’t even know that a certain network is powered by AMPECO, because our purpose is to enable the charging networks to run their businesses. These might be utilities, system integrators, or electrical installers and contractors. Charged : Even so, there must be a lot of differences—utilities, regulations, EV usage.