Planet Releases AI-powered Forest Carbon Monitoring Product — at 3-Meter Resolution

By Planet Labs
Business Wire
September 24, 2024
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: United States

SAN FRANCISCO — Planet Labs PBC, a provider of daily Earth data and insights, released its Forest Carbon Monitoring product, consisting of quarterly, 3-meter resolution measurements of forests globally. It offers an unprecedented dataset to support voluntary carbon markets, regulatory compliance, and deforestation mitigation. …This quarterly dataset estimates aboveground carbon, canopy height, and canopy cover over the entire Earth dating back to 2021, setting a new standard for monitoring forest growth and change. Forest Carbon Monitoring equips stakeholders with a cost-effective way to monitor forested areas — scaling from a single tree to the entirety of the Amazon rainforest. …But by leveraging Forest Carbon Monitoring data — built using Planet’s extensive archive of PlanetScope imagery and a global library of airborne and spaceborne LiDAR data, with processing by AI — users can derive precise, scalable, and affordable measurements without sacrificing scientific rigor.

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