'May the forest be with you.'
Norwegian firm Planet Labs also contributes maps and data to the FERM project. The company operates more than 200 camera-equipped satellites. These take approximately 350 million photos of the Earth's surface daily, each showing a one-square-kilometer region of the Earth. FAO forestry officer Remi D'Annunzio said these technologies allow an until-recently unprecedented insight into the state of the world.
Some argue that the funds for space technologies should be used to fix our problems here on Earth. As the iconic science popularizer Carl Sagan, this is an excluded middle fallacy. It doesn't have to be one or the other. What's more, space technologies can help to change the outcome. Part of that is using satellite imagery to shift public perception of the effects of climate change.
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