The Radar Mining Monitoring tool, RAMI, was officially launched on 6/16/21 to a wide audience that included NASA officials, US Agency for International Development (USAID) officials, the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM), and others. RAMI was developed through a collaboration between the non-profit organization Conservaciòn Amazònica (ACCA), the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), and SERVIR-Amazonia, in an effort to monitor and combat illicit activities that affect the Peruvian Amazon, especially in the Madre de Dios region. The tool employs synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to create near-real time alerts about forest disturbances like deforestation and degradation, as these have been typically found to occur where illegal gold mining is present. The borders of mining concessions, protected areas, and indigenous territories are all viewable layers in the tool that help to contextualize the alerts. MINAM is utilizing this service to support their conservation efforts.
Link to the RAMI tool: https://rami.servirglobal.net/ .
