Geo for Good 2023: Lightning Talks: Environmental Protection - Insights and Metrics

The slide deck for this talk → https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16152isL9p7IfBF-hsqoI8j9FKoILoA231ecBG9VuOA8/edit?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-2PiNcujr9ecPk54xW42lhw
More about the 2023 Geo for Good Summit → https://g.co/earth/geoforgood23

During this session, you'll hear 10 lightning talks featuring topics around advancing nature conservation and the protection, management and restoration of Earth’s natural resources through insights and metrics.

Jennifer Hird, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, “Supporting land and resource management in Alberta, Canada, with Earth Engine to provide open access, provincial-scale geospatial data sets”

Katie P. Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University, “Are transboundary Congo Basin protected areas complexes effective at reducing agriculture-driven deforestation and forest degradation?”

Lingling Liu, World Bank, “Pipeline that can help identify areas for landscape restoration investments for countries across the World Bank’s portfolio”

Fernanda Ribeiro, Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), “Monitoring deforestation in the savannas: the Cerrado Deforestation Alert System - SAD Cerrado”

João Siqueira, MapBiomas, “MapBiomas Alert: Improving the refinement of deforestation alerts in Brazil.”

Luiz Cortinhas F. Neto, MapBiomas, “Brazilian Mining Status: The Artisanal and Industrial Footprints”
Keenan Ganz, University of Washington, “500,000 polygons and a laptop: buliding a model of lake depth on Google Earth Engine.”

Jake Wall, Mara Elephant Project, “Ecoscope: a new tool for conservation data analytics”

Coen Adler, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Diffusion Models for Species-Specific Functional Habitat Connectivity”

Karina Azevedo, The Nature Conservancy, “Digitais da Floresta”