Planet care from space: Amazon forest monitoring using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks

The theme is strategic and deliberately provocative, what is the state of health of the earth and how is the world moving in the analysis of critical issues and how much is the cost of the climate crisis and the economic damage it causes? Extreme events such as droughts, fires, heat waves and storms can cause long-term economic damage due to their impact on health, savings and labor productivity. In particular, that of limiting the growth of the global average temperature on the surface of the oceans and land to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius, at the end of the century, compared to pre-industrial levels – “would allow the whole world to save 54 trillion dollars”.