Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 15: Life on Land

Netly designs, builds, and operates city-wide open-access fiber optic systems to radically upgrade the internet infrastructure in the USA.

OnFarm Systems Inc. designs and develops application software. The Company focuses on providing Internet of Things (IoT) data integration services, as well as offers software and analytics tools that help farmers simplify their data.

EarthRanger is a real-time, easy-to-use, online software solution developed by Vulcan Inc. to meet the unique needs of protected area managers, ecologists, and wildlife biologists. Our solution collects, integrates and displays all historical and real-time data available from a protected area - including wildlife, ranger patrols, spatial data, and observed threats.

SkyTruth is a conservation technology nonprofit using satellite imagery and data to inspire people to protect the environment. Despite the tremendous environmental challenges we face today, we’re optimistic. An explosion of satellite and computing technology will soon allow us to see what’s happening on the ground and on the water, everywhere, in near real-time.

Refiberd is developing a novel textile recycling system that uses AI and a green chemical recycling process to convert used, discarded textiles into new, reusable thread. By turning waste into a resource, Refiberd is able to manufacture 100% recycled thread that is cost-effective, sustainable, and easy to integrate into existing manufacturing processes.

Whether you're buying, selling, or managing a stand of timber, a field of crops, a patch of habitat, or an urbanizing watershed, you need timely, accurate assessments of ecosystem status and trends. We build data-driven geospatial solutions on the cloud to inform your land use decisions through space and time.

This project aims to progress the field of conservation tech by developing face recognition software for use in wildlife monitoring. Using human face recognition techniques, we're developing a software tool that can identify individual brown bears from images of their faces. This is important as scientists are under increasing pressure to draw larger conclusions from research with fewer resources.

American Forests; Tree Equity Score calculates scores based on how much tree canopy and surface temperature align with income, employment, race, age and health factors in the U.S. City government employees, community activists, urban foresters and others can use the score to make the case for planting trees in the neighborhoods that need them the most, and allocating the resources needed to do so.

Pachama uses AI and remote sensing to verify and monitor carbon capture by forests to help finance conservation and reforestation.

Providing intelligent water and field management solutions for the agriculture industry using IoT Sensors cloud based analytics.