CARTO & Google Cloud announce sustainability partnership to fight Climate Change

Today we’re excited to announce a further partnership with Google Cloud at the 2021 Google Cloud Next event  supporting their ambitious sustainability program - enabling global organizations to better understand the impact of climate change.

As well as CARTO  the program brings together leading sustainability-focused companies such as Climate Engine Geotab  NGIS and Planet who will provide crucial applications and more than 50 petabytes of data. These datasets include satellite imagery  demographics  mobility and telematics data - enabling Google Cloud customers in both the private and public sector to approach their sustainability initiatives in a more data-driven way  using Google’s BigQuery  machine learning (ML) and Earth Engine products.

Read more about this announcement in Google's Press Release.

So how does it work?

Our Spatial Extension for BigQuery enhances BigQuery with geospatial data  analysis  and visualization allowing customers to leverage data from Google Earth Engine  perform Spatial ML with Vertex AI  and overlay all that in rich 2D or 3D using the open-source data visualization library  deck.gl  and Google Maps Platform’s Maps JavaScript API.

Our extensive spatial data catalog is also natively available in BigQuery  so customers can access pre-processed spatial data without needing to extract  transform  or load it  or perform complex spatial transformations for analysis.

All of this together can enable a wide range of use cases such as catastrophe analytics  climate resilience analysis  extreme weather monitoring  biodiversity analysis or deforestation tracking - among others.

“The industry’s cleanest cloud”

Kevin Ichhpurani  Corporate Vice President  Global Ecosystem at Google Cloud reflected on the announcement in Google’s announcement: