On behalf of the Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC), we welcome you to Week 21 of our series to promote free GIS and remote sensing resources (webinars, instructional videos, technical manuals, e-books, etc.) to increase capacity, awareness, and skill development for the Pacific Islands geospatial community.
Last week, we looked at a free online course from Spatial Thoughts that teaches you how to use Python programming language to conduct geospatial tasks and analyses. This week we will explore Digital Earth Pacific, an operational Earth observation system that provides decision-makers with the information needed to make sound decisions addressing the Pacific’s challenges, most notably climate change, food security and disaster..
Week 21: Are you interested in leveraging the power of Earth observation to understand changing conditions and support progress towards multilateral environmental agreements such as the Paris Agreement and our Sustainable Development Goals?
The Digital Earth Pacific (DE Pacific) is an operational Earth observation system that utilises decades of satellite data to demonstrate how local environments are changing over time. This includes changes to landcover and land use to better target humanitarian assistance after disasters, mapping of changing coastlines caused by climate change or storm events, and understanding how mangrove growth has changed without the need for manual mapping.
DE Pacific will allow the Pacific Community’s (SPC) member states to make more informed decisions based on timely information. It is a free and open digital public infrastructure that helps enable the region to quickly understand the changes in our environment and at a fraction of the cost of previous data systems, at scale.
Information on DE Pacific can be found here:
https://digitalearthpacific.org
We hope that these materials are beneficial to you. Please let us know if you have a free GIS or remote sensing resource that you would like to promote as well so others can learn from them.