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Planet Watch: raise public awareness about ecological issues

The 10 projects selected by the jury of Planet Watch by Enlaps,
have been monitoring glaciers around the world for over a year.

The story of Planet Watch

In 2021, on the occasion of COP26, Enlaps launched its initiative Planet Watch by Enlaps, a call for projects aimed at glaciologists worldwide in order to make the evolution of global warming visible. Indeed, in the field of research, timelapse is widely used for glaciers.

Planet Watch by Enlaps provides international glaciologists with ten of its Tikee cameras, as well as free access to its myTikee cloud platform.

The goal of this initiative is to create a collaborative and educational map, accessible to the entire scientific community, public decision-makers, and citizens around the world.

This call for projects aims to raise public awareness about ecological issues, support international initiatives, and provide scientists around the world with exclusive and useful data.

On October 31, 2021, the speech by Heidi Sevestre (glaciologist, Director of Communications at ICPP, Project Coordinator at AMAP) during COP26, launched the Planet Watch project call by Enlaps. Candidates had until January 15, 2022, to submit their applications online and propose projects that are carbon-neutral at most and beneficial to the international scientific community.

The jury, consisting of Antoine Auberton (CEO of Enlaps), Heidi Sevestre, Luc Moreau (glaciologist associated with the Edytem CNRS laboratory), Yann Arthus-Bertrand (President of the Good Planet Foundation), and Sophie Szopa (research director at the climate and environment laboratory, author of the IPCC Group 1 report), selected the ten projects based on their scientific interest, the emblematic dimension of the chosen location, while ensuring their technical feasibility.

Navigate through the different projects of the first edition of Planet Watch by Enlaps

Open the menu at the top right to switch glaciers and explore the different viewpoints observed.

About the 10 winning projects

Click on the markers to see the description of each project

The Jury

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    Heidi SEVESTRE

    Glaciologist, Head of Communication at the ICPP, Coordinator of the AMAP project

    "I am proud to be associated with this initiative for the advancement our science, and also to make it accessible to the widest audience! Having installed Tikee cameras in the Arctic and around tropical glaciers, I know the impact that these time lapses can have on decision-makers and the general public."

  • Luc MOREAU

    Glaciologue associé au laboratoire Edytem du CNRS

    "Nous sommes tous responsables et savons aujourd’hui, car tout est “lié”, “connecté” sur notre planète, que nous avons fait des erreurs, car la Nature nous parle, nos glaciers diminuent de manière exponentielle, les animaux disparaissent, l’eau douce propre se raréfie (1% de l’eau sur Terre), l’air devient souvent irrespirable dans les villes. Nous consommons 1,7 planète chaque année, et nous n’en avons pas d'autres. Nous voyons nos erreurs, réparons les car il reste beaucoup de choses à préserver pour le bien être de la VIE, les solutions sont là, développons les !"

  • Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND

    Président et fondateur, Fondation Good Planet

    "Ravi d’être partenaire avec ma Fondation GoodPlanet sur ce projet essentiel. Source de 70% de l’eau douce sur terre, ces géants de glace, si essentiels à la vie, sont les premiers témoins du réchauffement global de notre planète."

  • Antoine AUBERTON

    PDG, Enlaps

    "La protection de l'environnement a toujours fait partie des valeurs d'Enlaps. Le fait d'être installés au cœur des montagnes nous a permis d'établir un dialogue naturel avec les glaciologues qui utilisent notre solution Tikee (Time Keeper pour gardien du temps). Au cours de nos échanges, la question de l'analyse de l’impact du réchauffement climatique s'est imposée à nous comme une évidence. Le dernier rapport GIEC manifeste de cette urgence, et c'est dans cet esprit que nous avons souhaité contribuer à cette mobilisation et prise de conscience au travers de l’initiative Planet Watch."

  • Sophie SZOPA

    Chercheuse au laboratoire climat et environnement, auteure pour le GIEC

    "Depuis quelques décennies, la fonte des glaciers se produit partout dans le monde. Le dernier rapport du GIEC montre que cette perte généralisée est sans précédent depuis au moins 2000 ans. Ce projet contribuera à rendre perceptible ces changements dans des milieux difficiles d’accès et à laisser des témoignages visuels de cette perte pour les générations futures."

Researchers have free access to numerous resources, such as a standalone Tikee 3 PRO camera, connected via 4G to the SaaS cloud platform for editing, analyzing, and sharing myTikee, including scientific support and technical recommendations. The Tikee 3 PRO solution from Enlaps, self-sufficient in energy thanks to the integration of photovoltaic panels and sharing data remotely, facilitates research projects: today, Tikee technology from Enlaps studies and analyzes glaciers around the world: Santa Isabel in Colombia, Fellaria in Italy, Combe Maudite in France, Heinabergjokull in Iceland, and so on.

The members of the jury will pay particular attention to ensuring that the data is understood by all citizens and public decision-makers. Moreover, this data will serve as a source of information for scientists worldwide, requiring as much data as possible to refine their analyses and recommendations. This digital mapping aims to expand each year, to cover a significant part of the global cryosphere.

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