Satellites = Magic Mapping = Sustainability!

 Satellites are CHANGING. At a speedy, stunning rate. Their formation, shape, deployment, ownership.




With that, inevitably, come new applications, too. Each of which has an innate utility, a benefit, an environmental and socio-economic progress attached. Can it save the world? No. Sorry. That's on YOU. And how you USE the tools! 

But even so, IF we do continue to advance this (and 'we' as a world can and will)? Then it might just be good news that comes from said satellites and not some end of the world disaster, so much as a news story about SAVING things?

Case in point: RAIN FORESTS! 

Swarm satellites are used by the Texas-based Rainforest Connection to monitor illicit logging and poaching in more than 32 nations. 

'Guardians' are solar-powered acoustic sensors that sit high in the treetops and appear to be part of the tree from the ground up. The sensors send a signal to one of Swarm's satellites overhead if they detect the sound of illegal activity up to 1.5 km away (as determined by algorithms); the satellite then passes the information back to a ground station.

This enables Rainforest Connection to notify people or law enforcement of any illegal activities, from Sumatran villages to Brazilian Indigenous nations' territory. According to Bourhan Yassin, CEO of Rainforest, "countries like Brazil and Malaysia, deforestation contributes to over 70% of their overall greenhouse gas emissions." It's a significant problem.


IE: MAPPING PLUS SATELLITES = SUSTAINABILITY = SAVE THE PLANET! COMPLEX SCIENCE. SIMPLE MESSAGE!

Sustainability Roadmap

And: City Maps

Or: Augmented World

And this company, right here, which I have come across in my research.

If you are still reading at this stage then also check out these two:

Airports

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