News: Portfolio 2008

ImageTree, CATHALAC Collaborate to Build Carbon-credit Ecomarket Infrastructure in Latin America, the Caribbean; Sign 5-year Agreement

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facilitate a government’s making information available to the various constituencies considered appropriate.”

 

“All ecomarket projects within a country will be developed using the same disciplined infrastructure, and all will be measured and monitored with the same precision and accuracy,” said ImageTree CEO Mark Redlus.

 

“This approach allows for economic efficiencies and economies of scale,” Redlus continued, “while providing carbon-credit assurance in a highly transparent system that creates unparalleled credibility.”

 

“The technology platform,” said ImageTree Vice President of Ecomarket Development Chuck Anderson, “will be designed to facilitate meeting multiple international accreditation standards

 

and methodologies, including IPCC Tier-3 requirements, the most challenging requirements of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

 

“IPCC Tier-3 status requires that countries use factors based on comprehensive field sampling in estimating and monitoring forest carbon stocks,” Anderson continued. “With ImageTree’s advanced technology and patented ForestSense system that combines remotely sensed data, imagery and/or other remotely sensed inputs with field correlation and feature extraction algorithms, we will be able to deploy an efficient and cost-effective model that will accelerate each country’s pursuit of that status.”

 

“As part of this collaboration effort,” said Sempris, “ImageTree will be able to use CATHALAC’s NASA-developed, high-tech satellite visualization system called SERVIR, which monitors the environment of Central America.” SERVIR’s data center, he noted, is located at CATHALAC headquarters in Panama and integrates environmental data from a variety of sources.

 

 

 

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