Data is everywhere today and in every industry — and it's remaking how we manufacture products, construct homes and buildings, feed ourselves, manage our resources and much more.
Big data is also the key to improving the way we conduct environmental studies and engage in environmental reporting for the purposes of regulatory compliance — and, ultimately, the key to making improvements. Here's a look at why big data is essential for understanding how human activities impact the environment.
Data Mapping for Accountability
Mapping and data visibility tools are incredibly important when it comes to understanding how environmental trends impact business and other human activities. Deforestation, for instance, is a problem that companies, regulators and authorities alike can all get on the same page about thanks to data. In this case, it's satellite mapping data.
The World Resources Institute founded a group called Global Forest Watch, which utilizes satellite telemetry, crowdsourced data (photo and video coverage, eyewitness accounts, etc.) and comparative analytical tools to identify areas where deforestation is accelerating, where companies are using more than their fair share of resources and areas where industrial activities and a lack of adequate protections have resulted in habitat loss and other changes in land cover and even ...
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