Jacob Abramowitz

During this session, you'll hear 9 lightning talks featuring topics around sustainable land management and conservation as well as supply chain transparency and traceability. Jacob Abramowitz, The University of Alabama in Huntsville and Bashara Abubakari, CERSGIS, "Innovative Reference Data Collection to Improve Commodity Mapping" Chris Goodman, NGIS, "Using the new Oil Palm Maps" Bart Slagter, Wageningen University and Research, "Satellite-based monitoring of deforestation, degradation, and land use: Implications for REDD+ and EUDR" Will Smith, Orbify, "Orbify + Earth Engine = EUDR compliance

The EU Deforestation Regulation aims to address the environmental and social issues associated with deforestation, specifically related to seven agricultural commodities. In this session, we’ll describe these commodities, showcase the state of the art in their detection and monitoring, and discuss the challenges and gaps that exist today.

SERVIR, a joint initiative of USAID and NASA, along with NASA IMPACT provide a series of talks and hands-on demonstrations of applied geospatial services, that leverage AI, Earth Observations, and Google technology, to address environmental challenges around the world. Developing an Agriculture Mapping System for South East Asia using Google Platforms Creating a Near Real Time Deforestation Alerts in the Amazon Using Google Technology Mapping Illegal Gold Mining using Google Platforms in West Africa Leveraging a Pre-Deployed Foundational Model Across Google Could and Google Earth Engine to Exp