Advancing How We Protect Our Ocean
Our Mission
Collaboration is fundamental to what we do. Without our deployment, technology, and capacity-building partners, much of our work and impact would be impossible. Our network of resources helps us implement Skylight worldwide.
For the vast majority of countries, the sheer size of the ocean dramatically outweighs the resources available to monitor the area for illegal fishing and associated maritime crimes. However, recent breakthroughs in AI, coupled with new and accessible data, present an opportunity to turn the tide. Through Skylight, our users can now monitor activities in the most isolated areas.
By aggregating various data sources, including vessels voluntarily sharing their location and those that do not, Skylight’s AI enables authorities to focus scarce resources for maximum effectiveness.
Focusing heavily on our enforcement and compliance community, Skylight delivers its information with minimal delay to improve situational awareness and decision-making.
Envisioned by our founder, the late Paul G. Allen, and his desire to push the boundaries of technology to protect our ocean, Skylight aids enforcement, particularly in countries with few resources to do so.
