Episode 77: Seeking Climate Justice from Space
Event details
Date
November 18, 2021
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Time Zone
Eastern Time
Location
Virtual
Episode audio
About Episode 77
How can space satellites help identify pollution and unsustainable land use practices? From oil spills to methane super-emitters, the view from space can spotlight the worst polluters. So why isn’t there better environmental accountability when so much earth monitoring data is available? In this episode Samira Patel talks to Karen Jones (Aerospace) and John Amos (President, SkyTruth) about these issues and more.
Learn about a new information architecture framework to better use satellite data for environmental monitoring and enforcement. Read the paper: Toward Environmental Accountability: Transforming Satellite Data Into Action