In a recent blog on the SERVIR Global Website, the co-developing service team of the Radar Mining Monitoring tool RAMI, composed by the Peruvian NGO Conservación Amazónica (ACCA), the Ministry of Environment and the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), describes how they used Collect Earth Online (CEO) to fight illegal mining in Amazon.
The tool helps weed out so-called false positives from genuine mining activity, so that official Agents can have confidence in the alert before they plan a route to suspected mining locations and take action on the ground.
CEO delivers that confidence by providing a way to validate the early alerts with other layers and satellite images.