Monitoring the COVID-19 Crisis from Space

世界各地的行业都受到了新冠肺炎疫情的影响。由于缺乏关于大流行严重程度和工业影响的可靠、空间上明确和及时的信息，因此很难评估疫情下降的真实状况及其对加拿大各地农村社区的影响，特别是在不列颠哥伦比亚省。一个关键的数据来源可以用来提供关于大流行影响的传播及其对工业的影响的高响应性、近乎实时的信息，其中一个关键的数据来源是从卫星获取的夜光图像。该项目与不列颠哥伦比亚省森林工业理事会合作，旨在通过开发空间清晰的数据集，将夜间灯光减少(在某些情况下增加)与森林工业活动以及随后对农村林业依赖社区的影响联系起来，帮助满足这一数据和分析需求。这将为COFI提供夜间衍生的经济活动指标，以帮助了解影响，并为关键限制取消后的复苏做好准备。

Industries worldwide have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The true state of the decline, and its impact on rural communities across Canada, and in particular in BC, has been very difficult to assess due to the lack of reliable, spatially explicit, and timely information about the severity and industrial impact of the pandemic. One key source of data which can used to provide highly responsive, near real time information on the spread of the impact of the pandemic and its impact on industry is night light imagery acquired from satellite. This project, in collaboration with the BC Council of Forest Industries, is designed to help address this data and analysis need, by developing spatially explicit datasets linking the reduction (and in some cases increase) in nighttime lights to forest industrial activity, and the subsequent impact on rural forestry dependent communities. This will then provide COFI with nightlight derived indicators of economic activity to help both understand the impact as well as prepare for recovery once key restrictions have been lifted.