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Date Published
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Florence Broderick
Word count
333
Language
English
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None

Summary

CARTO & Google Cloud announce sustainability partnership to fight Climate Change The partnership aims to support organizations in understanding the impact of climate change by enabling data-driven approaches using Google's BigQuery, machine learning, and Earth Engine products. CARTO and Google Cloud will provide a spatial extension for BigQuery, enhancing geospatial data analysis and visualization capabilities. The solution is designed to help customers analyze various use cases such as catastrophe analytics, climate resilience, extreme weather monitoring, biodiversity analysis, or deforestation tracking. The partnership leverages over 50 petabytes of data from leading sustainability-focused companies, including Climate Engine, Geotab NGIS, and Planet, to support a wide range of sustainability initiatives. By combining their solutions, CARTO and Google Cloud aim to provide the industry's cleanest cloud for practitioners looking to carry out cloud-native GIS, while also addressing climate change through trusted and sustainable data platforms.