WE WORK BETTER TOGETHER
PURPOSE PARTNERS
ACT's Brian Hettler works with a group of people of all ages from the
Curare—Los Ingleses Reser ve on how to interpret Maxar's satellite
imager y and map their community for monitoring and conser vation
ef forts. Image: Amazon Conser vation Team.
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is a
nonprofit dedicated to preserving South American
rainforests. This small but robust organization
occupies a unique niche among environmental
nonprofits working in the tropics. ACT works
hand-in-hand with local indigenous communities
to devise and implement its conservation
strategies. Maxar provides imager y to support
participator y indigenous mapping initiatives and to
help ACT locate and map uncontacted indigenous
communities so that they can be better protected
from external threats. Maxar imager y helps
ACT monitor destructive impacts on rainforests,
including the recent Amazon fires, to support
local indigenous partners on the frontlines
of conservation.
Maxar employees volunteered their time adding to the map in Myanmar
from of fice locations in Westminster and Longmont, Colorado; Herndon,
Virginia; Palo Alto, California; Ypsilanti, Michigan; and Brampton,
Ontario, Canada.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
is an international team dedicated to launching
crowdsourced mapping campaigns for the
public to participate in as a response to natural
disasters and supporting the achievement of the
United Nations SDGs. Maxar provides HOT with
satellite imager y for accurate mapping and team
member hours for company-wide mapathons. In
August 2019, Maxar hosted a HOT mapathon, in
partnership with the American Red Cross and the
Missing Maps Project, to create up-to-date maps
of Myanmar before the next flood season started.
More than 120 employees from around the globe
contributed their time to add 48,581 new buildings
and 1,121 km of roads to the map.
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