AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Joe Sexton
Joe Sexton is the chief scientist and co-founder of terraPulse, Inc. He saw his first satellite image in 1998 and has been using data to explore the natural world ever since. After developing the world’s first Landsat-based map of global tree canopy cover, publishing the algorithms, and delivering the dataset to NASA, Dr. Sexton and his labmates retired from academia to expose their technology to the world.
Managing the world’s natural resources with earth observation
With increasing pressure from climate change, loss of biodiversity, and demand for natural resources from already stressed ecosystems, it has become essential to understand and address environmental changes by making sustainable land use decisions with the latest and most accurate data. As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), AWS invited Joe Sexton, chief scientist and co-founder of terraPulse, to share how AWS technologies and open data are supporting terraPulse’s efforts to provide accurate and up-to-date information on the world’s changing ecosystems.