Latin America Embraces Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for Law Enforcement, Forest Protection, and Civil Government Initiatives
14 Agosto 2024 - 3:03PM
Business Wire
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, showcased major customers and partners from
across Central and South America yesterday at their “Planet On The
Road” conference series, hosted in Bogotá, Colombia. Speakers at
the in-person event included data and artificial intelligence
experts and government leaders from Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia,
who focused on how satellite data was being used across Latin
America for sustainable development, law enforcement, disaster
response, and Amazon forest protection.
Planet provides their customers and partners with satellite
datasets and analysis feeds, helping to conduct broad area
management and quantify changing conditions on the surface of the
Earth. At the Bogotá event, Planet President and CFO, Ashley
Johnson expanded on these capabilities, highlighting the company’s
newly launched Planet Insights Platform and shared, “Our daily
global scan can help authorities improve situational awareness,
allocate resources during complex incidents that occur over large
areas, understand flood risks in burned areas, and plan long-term
recovery operations.”
Planet has experienced business momentum in Latin America over
the last year and by working with partners in the region, valuable
insights and novel workflows have emerged for governments and
businesses in the region. "Our community is uniquely equipped to
harness the power of space data and AI technologies to see the
signal in the noise, to modernize and digitize our workflows, use
transparency to promote peace and security and to accelerate the
transition toward a sustainable economy,” said Robbie Schingler,
Planet Co-founder and CSO in his keynote address at the event.
Planet customers and partners took to the stage for the day to
share how this satellite data provides solutions to challenges
specific to the region. Representatives from INRA, Bolivia’s land
management agency, discussed how they worked in collaboration with
Planet and Planet partner CIVIS to modernize their approach to land
management. Aiming to balance sustainability, food sovereignty, and
national development, INRA leveraged the Planet Insights Platform
to gain near real-time insights and streamline management for
monitoring for carbon emissions compliance and land use and
titling, establishing ambitious sustainable targets across the
nation.
In a keynote, alongside INRA, Planet customer Instituto
Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC), a Colombian government entity
responsible for managing cartographic data, shared how they provide
access to users PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps covering the entire
Colombian territory. Through their platform, Observatorio de la
Tierra y el Territorio (OTT), organizations are able to conduct
efficient land-use planning and territorial management. With data
analysis and AI, the platform aims to offer capabilities for
monitoring infrastructure change and detect anthropogenic changes
to the environment.
In a fireside chat hosted by Robbie Schingler, Planet’s
co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and Guillermo Ocampo,
Microsoft’s National Digital Transformation Officer, the industry
leaders discussed how artificial intelligence and satellite imagery
have been transforming biodiversity protection in South America,
helping to inform scientists and raise public awareness.
Microsoft’s Project Guacamaya, for instance, runs AI-enabled
analyses on top of Planet satellite imagery of biodiverse regions
to swiftly detect ecosystem changes, potentially caused by
deforestation or mining.
Planet partner Procalculo spoke about their collaborative work
with organizations across Colombia to provide geospatial insights
derived from Planet satellite data in areas, such as risk
management and disaster response. At the event, Procalculo shared
how they used deep learning models on top of Planet data to
evaluate yearly drought impacts and risks, wildfire threat zones,
and mapping roads for disaster management. They also spoke with the
Head of Space Production Area for the Airforce of Colombia about
how Planet data offers the capabilities of broad area management
for the Amazon, enabling authorities to combat illegal
deforestation.
Representatives across the Brazil MAIS program shared how Planet
data has enabled the success and expansion of the program, working
to protect the Brazilian Amazon in collaboration with the Federal
Police of Brazil, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of
Brazil, and Planet partner SCCON Geospatial. Leveraging Planet
satellite data, SCCON supports a change detection alert system on
their platform, making near real-time information regarding illicit
activities, such as deforestation and illegal mining accessible to
Brazilian government agencies. The Federal Police of Brazil have
been able to implement justice across the country, protecting the
Amazon rainforest and enhancing their law enforcement operations.
With Planet satellite data and SCCON’s automated change detection,
the project collected over $3 billion from fines, seized goods, and
the freezing of assets since 2020.
The Planet On the Road Bogotá event also hosted a myriad of
leaders leveraging Planet satellite data across the Latin American
agricultural industry and disaster response. In the digital farming
arena, customers and partners speaking included Disargo, a leading
supplier of fertilizers originating from Guatemala, Auravant, an
Argentina-based digital agricultural monitoring system, and
Oryzatvia, which integrates Planet data into their digital platform
to support rice farming in Uruguay. Focusing on how AI and machine
learning can transform proactive disaster response, Planet
customers and partners EPM and Procaculo from Colombia, and
Chile-based Raster4 shared how satellite data and emerging
technologies are supporting all stages of disaster life cycle
management, including prevention, response, and recovery.
Comprehensive List of Guest Speakers:
- Guillermo Ocampo, National Digital Transformation Officer,
Microsoft
- Alfredo Aramayo, President, CIVIS
- Felipe Trujillo, General Manager, Procalculo Prosis S.A.S.
- Gustavo Marulanda Morales, General Director, IGAC
- Juan De Dios Fernández, General Director of Planning, INRA
- Camila Pintarelli, Director - Chief of National Fund for Public
Security of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of
Brazil
- Cristiano Cunha, Chief of the Geomatics Service of the Federal
Police & Coordinator of the Steering Committee of the Brazil
MAIS Program of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security
- Iara Musse Felix, CEO, SCCON Geospatial
- Bernardo B�cking, Co-Founder, Oryzativa
- Billy Pineda, Corporate Manager for Innovation and Development,
DISAGRO
- Fernando Calo, Chief Business Development Officer,
Auravant
- Cristiano Cunha, Chief of the Geomatics Service of the Federal
Police & Coordinator of the Steering Committee of the Brazil
MAIS Program of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security
- Camila Pintarelli, Director - Chief of National Fund for Public
Security of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of
Brazil
- Captain Laura Fernanda Guerra Ibáñez, Head of Space Production
Area, Airforce of Colombia (FAC)
- Martha Patricia Valbuena Gaona, Research and Development
Manager, Procalculo Prosis S.A.S.
- Juan Camilo Amaya, Geospatial Technology Manager, Procalculo
Prosis S.A.S.
- William Ramírez, Environmental, Social, and Sustainability
Professional, EPM
- Valentina Espinosa Caviedes, General Manager, Raster4
Planet Speakers:
- Robbie Schingler, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer,
Planet
- Ashley Johnson, President and Chief Financial Officer,
Planet
- Thijs Van Leeuwen, Sr. Director of Product, Planet
- Dr. Flávia De Souza Mendes, Program Manager, Forests & Land
Use, Planet
- Gustavo Tonzo, Sr. Industry Account Executive, Planet
- Ricardo Guerra, Regional Sales Director of LATAM, Planet
- Steve Padgett Vasquez, Customer Success Manager, Planet
- Ana Bragança, Customer Success Manager, Planet
- Nataly Pulido, Customer Success Manager, Planet
- Sergio Ramirez, Sales Engineer, Planet
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