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Working with our partner Upstream Tech’s Lens Platform, One Tree Planted accesses Planet data, capturing insights about their global #restoration work, reporting growth and progress, and rallying both communities and donors. “One of the biggest barriers to expanding global reforestation is #transparency, risk management, and confidence that these projects are happening,” said Ross Bernet, Monitoring Manager at One Tree Planted. “There’s huge interest from a wide variety of public and private sector foundations to contribute to environmental causes. But as of yet, there’s no single standard, trusted transparency mechanism to monitor all of these trees.” Satellite imagery provides the necessary transparency. It offers a way to monitor the progress of projects at scale and build confidence reliably. It also generates insights to improve decision-making and helps local communities showcase their work to a global audience. They’ve planted over 100 million trees! Learn how they are now monitoring this progress:

If a tree grows in the forest, but nobody’s there to see it, does it justify widespread reforestation investments? One Tree Planted is working on teasing this one out as they scale their global operations. Satellite data is helping.   Working with our partner Upstream Tech’s Lens Platform, One Tree Planted accesses Planet data, capturing insights about their global restoration work, reporting growth and progress, and rallying both communities and donors. They’ve planted over 100 million trees. Learn how they are now monitoring this progress:

Check out this great blog post from Planet that describes the partnership we have with Upstream Tech and how we use satellite data to monitor trees. Upstream Tech's Lens makes it easy to access satellite data from multiple providers, upload my own drone data, and combine it with other geospatial datasets at a project level. This enables change detection quantification and times series analysis to monitoring the tree growth over time. On the ground monitoring (geotagged photos, drone data, sample plots) is essential for the first few years of a project because trees are too small to be visible from satellites. Satellites are essential for long term monitoring because field-based measurements are labor intensive and costly. Satellites enable nearly limitless scale, and once the trees are visible from space, a much easier approache to monitoring. Shoutout to Carolyn Mansfield duPont for your support, often behind the scenes, in making Lens so useful for us!

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When it comes to assessing the impact of forest carbon projects via space-borne remote sensing, accuracy is everything - and one of the starting points in generating high accuracy insights is the spatial resolution of the satellite data. This is a great explainer by Ed Mitchard of why more pixels isn't always better.

Utilizing Remote Sensing Data with Community Participation Why do we have to combine remote sensing data with community participation to create a robust and effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system for REDD projects? Complementary strengths of combining the two: Remote sensing: a. Delivers objective data: Remote sensing data minimizes human bias and provides quantifiable measurements of forest cover, carbon stocks, and other parameters. b. Enables cost-effective monitoring: Regularly analyzing satellite data is often more efficient than extensive ground-based surveys. Community participation: a. Provides ground-level insights: Local communities possess detailed knowledge of their forests and can identify specific drivers of deforestation and degradation that might be missed by remote sensing. b. Enables qualitative data collection: Communities can offer valuable information on socio-economic factors, cultural practices, and traditional forest management strategies. c. Builds trust and ownership: By involving communities in M&E, you build trust and ensure they feel ownership of the project and its outcomes. Benefits of combining the two 1. Improved data quality: Combining remote sensing data with ground-based data collected by communities can provide a more complete and accurate picture of the project's impacts. 2. Enhanced transparency and accountability: Community participation in M&E promotes transparency and ensures that all stakeholders are involved in decision-making. 3. Increased project effectiveness: By tracking progress and identifying challenges early on, communities and project managers can adapt and improve interventions to maximize the project's impact. #climatefinance #monitoringandevaluation

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