Maxar believes its geospatial data and analytics, as well as team member expertise, can have a significant impact on the nonprofits, like Jane Goodall Institute, that are chosen as a Maxar Purpose Partner. These edits will be available to anyone via OSM. Combining these two datasets gave mappers the locations of where change had occurred, eliminating the need to manually scan imagery. They also used Maxar’s BaseVue LULC, a moderate-resolution land use/land cover dataset, and Persistent Change Monitoring ( PCM), an imagery-derived data layer highlighting locations of persistent change, as guides to more efficiently direct their work during the mapathon, using the MapRoulette application. Maxar’s team members in California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Texas and Virginia, as well as in England, used OSM to map 947 km of roads and over 120 sq km of forested areas over four days.
Maxar’s high-resolution satellite imagery is available as a foundational mapping layer in OpenStreetMap (OSM). “JGI will share and use the updated maps with the local private forest owners, community forest monitors, government partners and other nongovernmental organizations to better understand the human footprint and to inform and measure the success of ongoing tree planting, forest restoration and protection efforts in the region” said Lilian Pintea, JGI’s Vice President for Conservation Science.Ĭaption: Data: OpenStreetMap contributors Restoring and keeping this land forested is important because it provides local communities with access to water and other forest resources while also supporting chimpanzee communities and their connectivity to larger chimpanzee populations in the two reserves. This land has been heavily affected by logging, agriculture, mining and development. The mapathon focused on this area because it covers land important to maintain connectivity between two large forest habitats, the Budongo and Bugoma Central Forest Reserves. More than 35 Maxar and JGI team members participated in the Mapping For A Better World mapathon, working together to map an area covering roughly 9,000 sq km of the Buliisa and Hoima regions of Uganda (seen below) to support JGI’s community-led conservation work in the region. This was one of the objectives of the Maxar-JGI mapathon earlier this summer.Ī chimpanzee in the forest in Uganda. To achieve the goals outlined in SDG 15, it is crucial to have an accurate map of forested areas that need to be preserved, which can be used by local communities and governments in their land-use planning to protect and restore watersheds and other ecosystem services supporting people, animals and the environment. The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) focuses on community-led approaches, known as “Tacare,” which empower local communities to connect conservation objectives with ecosystem services important for their livelihoods and drive nature-based development and conservation decision-making. SDG 15, Life on Land, highlights different ways to help preserve natural habitats, increase biodiversity and ensure a sustainable future for animals, like chimpanzees. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outline 17 objectives to make the world a more equitable, peaceful and prosperous place for all living beings on the planet. Having once had a population of 1 million-2 million just a century ago, chimpanzees are already extinct in three countries, and it is estimated that their population numbers are 172,700 to 299,700 in the wild. The chimpanzee range spans 21 countries from East to Central and West Africa. A current map is essential to supporting this endangered species. To protect chimpanzees, conservation practitioners must first know their habitat locations.
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