The South Florida Water Management District oversees water resources for more than 9 million residents, from Orlando to the Florida Keys. That means monitoring water quality, especially in Lake Okeechobee, the largest freshwater lake in the state and the 10th largest lake in the country. That’s no small task. In partnership with Google Public Sector, SFWMD is leveraging geospatial data and analytic tools to be more efficient and effective in its monitoring and remediation efforts. The district is implementing Google’s Climate Insights for natural resources. Built by Google in partnership with Earth-insights provider Climate Engine, it’s a suite of capabilities driven by the geospatial platform Google Earth Engine. Google Earth Engine collects more than 75 petabytes of data from satellite imagery. “We take that data and combine it with remote sensing data that the district can produce itself,” Amalfi says. “Then we bring that into BigQuery, the same platform Google Search uses to power the analytics, to create the insights. From there, we apply AI and analytics to generate the insights needed to make decisions.”