Ed Mitchard

Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Space Intelligence

Professor Ed Mitchard has spent ~20 years using satellite data to map the changing carbon stocks of the world's forests and peatlands. As a professor at Edinburgh University, he published over 100 scientific papers, raised $8 million in research funding, and measured >15,000 trees across 13 countries. He has advised governments on how to monitor their forests, been deeply involved in the evolution of carbon standards, including Verra’s VCS and the Plan Vivo Standard, and supported carbon project developers around the world.

In 2017 he co-founded Space Intelligence with Dr Murray Collins, to bring high accuracy satellite-derived maps to nature-based carbon offset projects. This was urgent because he thought carbon finance was essential to halt forest destruction and start restoration, but the latest methods and best satellite datasets were not being used.

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