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Orbify Geospatial Data Platform - June'23 Updates
Last edited: July 10, 2023
Published: June 14, 2023
Orbify Team
Earth Intelligence Specialists
Monitoring project鈥檚 buffer areas
While monitoring and gathering data for the project area is one of our top goals, we鈥檙e aware that there are several surrounding factors that may impact the project area itself.
That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e rolling out additional insights, calculated for automatically adjusted buffer area, surrounding the project, as well as for detected administrative boundary.
Forest Risk Score
Based on the project and project鈥檚 surroundings analysis we鈥檝e built our own forest risk index - an AI based approach to computing deforestation risk based on several factors, like fire risk, development of urban areas, population changes, previously observed forest state, etc.
Layer selector
To make viewing map layers easier and less cluttered, we鈥檝e introduced the possibility to filter displayed layer values based on detected legend entries.
Sentinel-2 super resolution
Sentinel-2鈥檚 10m resolution is good enough for most cases, but higher resolutions always improve the quality of data. High resolution images are also really useful for visual inspection.
Using AI-based image enhancer for processing, we鈥檙e now making 2.5m super resolution Sentinel-2 images available on the Geospatial Data Platform.
Improved total area calculation (with elevation)
In most cases, the geodesic calculation of project鈥檚 total area is good enough to provide a reasonable estimate.
We鈥檝e decided to improve the calculation by adding additionally calculating the project鈥檚 area with terrain elevation included in the calculations.
User management
We鈥檝e rolled out an intuitive and easy to use user management screen for your GDP application, allowing invite users to the application鈥檚 dashboard view.
Forest loss by year
Besides the regular detection of gained, lost and maintained forest areas, we鈥檝e added more detailed visualisation of when the actual forest loss occured.
Land use categorisation
In order to improve project monitoring, we鈥檝e introduced land use categorisation related features, to allow quick visualisation of specific land cover type, as well as to calculate land cover related statistics.
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