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Putting Sustainability Data to Work

Joe FlasherOpen Geospatial Data LeadAWS

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The AWS Open Data program expands access to data by staging it for analysis in the cloud.

https://opendata.aws

AWS Public Datasetshttps://registry.opendata.aws

Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative

The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative significantly reduces the cost, time, and technical barriers associated with analyzing large datasets to generate

sustainability insights.

amazonsdi.com

AWS Public Sustainability Datasetshttps://registry.opendata.aws/tag/sustainability/

• Satellite imagery (Landsat, Sentinel-2, CBERS)

• Climate/weather forecasts from national meteorological agencies

• Air quality data (OpenAQ, Sentinel-5P, SILAM)

• Solar and wind data

• Earthquake data (Grillo, SCEDC)

• Disaster Response Imagery (NOAA, Maxar)

52 sustainability-relevant datasets

Flipped data flow in the cloudTraditional approach:Move data to computing resources.

Cloud approach:Move computing resources to data.

Amazon S3

AmazonEC2

AmazonEMR

AmazonAthena

Monitoring at-risk bodies of water from space

The Blue Dot Observatory uses Sentinel-2 satellite data on AWS to monitor water bodies around the world.

“The cost to process one month of data for about 7,000 bodies of water currently in the system is 6 EUR. It is possible to set up world-scale systems with a shoestring budget.”

opendata.aws/bluedot

OpenAQ

OpenAQ is a non-profit focused on aggregating global air quality data. Currently has collected >500M measurements from 134 data sources in 92 countries.

At a recent AWS hackathon, participants created visualizations and predictive ML models on top of the data in less than 3 hours.

openaq.org

Detect earthquakes in real time

Grillo shares seismic data produced by their network of IoT-based sensors deployed in Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica.

This data can be processed in real time to detect earthquakes occurring off the coast of Chile before they are felt in Santiago.

opendata.aws/iot-earthquake

Twenty Years of India Lights

University of Michigan, Development Seed, and The World Bank worked together to study nighttime light output for 20 years for 600,000 villages across India.

The data can be used to look at changes in light output, which can be used to complement research about electrification in the country.

india.nightlights.io

Other Projects

Global Electrification Platform Monitoring Special Economic Zones

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