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Satellites

Explore 25 projects in the Satellites category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

25 projects

FireSat

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

USA
fires

Predicting Well Groundwater Quality Using Cloud-Based Machine Learning: DataKind San Francisco Partners with Aquaya and DataKind

A writeup of the partnership

New York City
Clean water and sanitation

GiveDirectly Hurricane Relief

In partnership with Google and Propel, GiveDirectly is automating cash aid to Propel users living in areas deemed damaged by satellite imagery

hurricanes

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005
OpenStreetMap

Earth Fire Alliance

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

USA
fires

WattTime

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And itโ€™s going to make the data public.

Oakland, California
Climate action, Responsible consumption and production

Copernicus

The European Union Earth Observation Programme

Avenue d'Auderghem 45, Brussels, Belgium
2012

Starlink cellular connectivity in disasters

Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones

Redmond, WA
hurricanes

Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET)

ARSET offers satellite remote sensing training that builds the capacity of organizations to use NASA Earth science data in their decision-making.

Washington, DC