Planet is an integrated aerospace and data analytics company that operates history's largest commercial fleet of satellites, collecting a massive amount of information about our changing planet. Planet's data and machine learning-powered analytics are used by customers to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest challenges.

As a part of the Allen Coral Atlas project, Planet provides satellite data, technical support, and platform services to the partnership.

The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions. They strive for excellence through the creation, preservation, transfer and application of knowledge. For more than a century, UQ has educated and worked with outstanding people to deliver knowledge leadership for a better world.

As a part of the Allen Coral Atlas project, Dr. Chris Roelfsema and Prof. Stuart Phinn lead their team in two main components: 1) acquiring new and existing verification data and 2) creating benthic and geomorphic maps of the world’s coral reefs. These maps are crucial to conservationists in identifying the reef composition and will be used for planning and managing marine protected areas.

Having helped change the way the world communicates when he co-founded Microsoft more than 40 years ago, Paul G. Allen worked to apply cutting-edge technology to change the trajectory of today’s toughest problems.

With governments and enforcement agencies needing better access to actionable data to stop illegal activity, Vulcan is applying its resources and expertise in technology, aerospace, biodiversity, and maritime security to fill key information gaps and support the development of sustainable solutions.

The mission of the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation is to advance society through the performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The primary focus of the Foundation’s grant making in Conservation is the protection of the world’s oceans and species. Allen Coral Atlas partners, the National Geographic Society and The Wildlife Conservation Society, received a grant from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation to fund global field engagement efforts.

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation exists to ensure a Great Barrier Reef for future generations. We seek out the solutions and innovations that will also benefit coral reefs globally as they tackle the same threats and challenges facing the world's largest Reef.

The Foundation is responsible for coordinating and managing the work undertaken by the team at UQ, and to develop plans and concepts for the operationalisation and up-take of the Atlas.

MERMAID is an open-source data platform that collects and manages real-time data on coral reef ecosystem health from >1,500 coral reef scientists in >35 countries around the world. MERMAID helps scientists collect, analyze and share critical data on coral reef health - empowering scientists, communities, and governments in linking data to conservation and policy action.

The mission of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. In the Caribbean, TNC is working to create healthy, resilient islands by protecting the ocean and coasts, safeguarding against the impacts of climate change and conserving and restoring coral reefs.

Drs. Joseph Pollock and Steve Schill and their team are developing a first-of-its-kind high-resolution habitat map of nearshore marine environments throughout the entire Caribbean basin. Importantly, TNC and partners are also putting this map to use for on-the-ground conservation action to more effectively conserve and restore coral reefs across the Caribbean.

WCS stands for wildlife and wild places and leads conservation programs spanning the entire ocean and more than 3 million biologically critical square miles in over 50 countries. WCS runs the world’s largest conservation field program, protecting more than 50 percent of Earth’s known biodiversity; in partnership with governments, Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the private sector.

The Coral Reef Rescue Initiative presents a rescue strategy to conserve the world’s rapidly deteriorating tropical coral reefs. The initiative will focus on protecting those reefs that have the greatest potential to survive in a warming ocean and to act as source reefs from which corals can regenerate in the future. In particular, that means supporting the handful of developing countries where most climate-resilient reefs are found, and especially the human communities on the front-line.

The Initiative is led by WWF, in partnership with WCS, Rare, CARE, Blue Ventures, University of Queensland, the Government of Fiji, Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries and Vulcan Inc.

Carol Phua is WWF’s Global Coral Reef Initiative Manager and Global MPA Lead, and works closely with partners to develop and lead implementation efforts. Working closely with the Allen Coral Atlas Team, the Initiative will use the Atlas in an ambitious landscape and seascape planning process with local governments and coastal communities.

The Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) is an independent research unit within the School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Formerly directed by renowned coral reef scientist and conservationist Ruth Gates, the Institute’s mission is to conduct multi-disciplinary research and education into all aspects of tropical marine biology. Following Dr. Gates’ unfortunate passing, HIMB continues to be a world leader in research to understand and conserve tropical marine ecosystems, and develops and implements new technologies that advance the informed stewardship of Hawaiʻi's marine and coastal biodiversity. Ruth Gates helped to conceive the Allen Coral Atlas as a wide partnership in service of scientists, conservationists, and local communities worldwide striving to save coral reefs, and the Atlas team are proud for this to be part of her legacy.

Planet is an integrated aerospace and data analytics company that operates history's largest commercial fleet of satellites, collecting a massive amount of information about our changing planet. Planet's data and machine learning-powered analytics are used by customers to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest challenges.

The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions. They strive for excellence through the creation, preservation, transfer and application of knowledge. For more than a century, UQ has educated and worked with outstanding people to deliver knowledge leadership for a better world.