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by jaxgeller 841 days ago
At the end of the year, the EU will require importers of certain commodities (coffee, cocoa, cattle, palm oil, etc) to have evidence the commodity was not grown on deforested land. It's called the EUDR[1], and I don't think a lot of importers are ready for it.

The crux of the issue is each importer requires verifiable satellite evidence. I could see suppliers using this site to generate their compliance statements!

[1]. https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/forests/deforestatio...

1 comments

That's really cool!

And a great use case for mass-market satellite imagery.

There's no arguing that f.ex. n-2 years ago there was tree cover in imagery of an area, that's now gone.

I'm not familiar with this notation: "f.ex. n-2"?
'Two years ago'