SkyTruth is a nonprofit environmental watchdog that uses satellite imagery and remote sensing data to identify and monitor threats to the planet's natural resources.
"[1] Areas of focus range from issues such as offshore drilling, oil spills, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal mining, illegal fishing[2] and habitat change detection.
SkyTruth releases all of its imagery and data to researchers and the public for free with the goal of greater transparency to hold industries and governments accountable for environmental harm.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University used SkyTruth's FrackFinder data to link hydraulic fracturing activity to premature birth, high risk pregnancies,[9] migraines, fatigue, and chronic nasal and sinus symptoms.
[10] On September 16, 2015, SkyTruth in partnership with Google and marine conservation organization, Oceana, launched Global Fishing Watch at the Our Ocean Conference hosted by then-US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, DC.