Land & Carbon Lab partners with leading scientists and technologists to harness the power of artificial intelligence and geospatial monitoring to build cutting edge, open access monitoring systems for the world’s land and its nature-based carbon.

• Environmental data
• Civic data

In the period between the beginning of 2021 and the middle of 2022, we investigated open-source digital infrastructures used by communities that are under the constant threat of violation of civil and environmental rights.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Environmental data

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Environmental data
• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Environmental data
• Satellites

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• apps

• Environmental data
• Blockchain
• Crowdsourcing

FathomNet is an open-source image database for understanding our ocean and its inhabitants

• Life below water

• Environmental data
• Civic data

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Environmental data
• Civic data

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data
• Civic data

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data
• Machine vision

Supporting sustainability decision-making with the power of the cloud

• Microsoft

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data