Earth Genome released a major update for Amazon MiningWatch covering mining activity through Q2 2026, including a new machine-learned model to detect gold mining activity trained on Sentinel-2 satellite image data, output data spanning 2018-present, and a fine-tuned SAM2 segmentation model to map mining scars.
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“We're releasing a major update this week for #AmazonMiningWatch. The data series now covers mining activity through Q2 2026.”
— Earth Genome team
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Earth Genome makes environmental data accessible and actionable. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we are committed to furthering human understanding of our changing planet by collecting, organizing, and sharing environmental data. We are a cross-disciplinary group of data scientists, researchers, environmentalists, technologists, and creatives. We believe the actionable insights about natural capital that will result will be as vital to making informed business, policy, and investment decisions as financial capital is today.
Founded 2014