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Human eyes are powerful electromagnetic wave detectors that react at wavelengths between 400 nm (purple) and 700 nm (red). However, the wave spectrum is much larger and invisible to our eyes.Today, technology allows us to have special cameras to detect a greater range of frequencies, these are called hyperspectral cameras, and they are capable of obtaining complete information from a band of the spectrum.<h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Operation: Sensors And Many Colors</h2>To understand how it works, if we inspect the sensor, we will see that the way it operates is very similar to the camera that our cellphone has, but a little more complex (and expensive).Like common cameras, a hyperspectral camera is composed of an array of sensors that are sensitive to a certain range of the electromagnetic spectrum, generally the range that comprises the Near Infrared or NIR. Then, each pixel reacts differently to the frequencies it receives.That is, if in a pixel of our cellphone the light is broken down into three RGB levels (Red, Green, and Blue), in the case of hyperspectral, a pixel is represented by&nbsp;hundreds&nbsp;of components each corresponding to a different wavelength in that band of the spectrum.

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Seeing The Invisible:

There are plenty of technological solutions to climate change. Just like human activities, technology can be a solution or a cause for more problems. We define technical solutions as a wide variety of approaches, from satellite technology, supporting environmental monitoring and planning, renewable energy technology that helps to reduce environmental and carbon footprint, to industrial carbon capture.&nbsp;Here’s some good news for the tech fans: this discipline has the power to help us reduce global emissions and even manage extreme weather events. But there is also bad news: technologies like industrial carbon capture, geoengineering, and climate engineering hold promise, yet they encounter significant barriers and are unfeasible at this time and the foreseable future. These proposals, while innovative, lack the scalability needed to address the pressing and extensive challenges of climate and biodiversity disruption we face in the present moment. Some are too idealistic to be practically implemented, while others introduce the potential for unforeseen predicaments due to the intricate nature of climate and biodiversity systems. The complexity of these systems means that the consequences and side effects of technological interventions remain unclear.

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Technology use for climate change

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Arte de Hera

We are fortunate to live in a time when science and technology allow us to do the most amazing things imaginable. We are fortunate, also, to live on a planet with an extraordinary wealth of life forms — life that does not exist anywhere else in the universe (that we know of).We are, therefore, in the right place and at the right time to realize how lucky we are.We cannot waste these incredible tools and we cannot waste this extraordinary nature.Today we can use these incredibly sophisticated instruments that we have in our hands, take advantage of the collective intelligence enabled by hyperconnectivity, the innumerable sources of auditable and open data, the overwhelming research and scientific literature, the robust remote sensing mechanisms (such as satellite, hyperspectral or LiDAR imagery), to visibilize and help us value our natural world.That is why today with&nbsp;<a href="https://odd.co/">Odd Industries</a>&nbsp;we are announcing&nbsp;<a href="https://le.mu/">Lemu</a>, an atlas of the biosphere that uses the most advanced technology at our disposal to bring nature online, with the objective of helping reverse the environmental crisis.Lemu is a collection of countless geospatial data sources about nature, including satellite data, open data and collaborative citizen science data to identify, measure and understand the value that ecosystems generate every day.It is an overwhelming challenge and we can only achieve it by working together, which is why we are gathering the largest possible network of institutions or individuals from the public, private, academic, NGO or civil society, who are working for our planet.We want the conservation or restoration of ecosystems to stop being considered a philanthropic or charitable act and turn it into the best possible investment for the future of Earth.Lemu will open to the public in late 2021. For now, I invite you to sign up on our waiting list.