Satellites
Satellites can be used for a range of public good tech solutions, from providing imagery to humanitarian responses to monitoring environmental degradation.
AI for conflict detection
Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.
cmapit analytics
BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR
Ogbomosho, Nigeria
Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development
- ai.facebook.com
- Artificial Intelligence, Civic data, Data visualization, Hardware, High-tech civic tech, ICT4D, Machine learning, Mapping, Satellites, The Tech
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
Palo Alto, California, USA
The State of Satellites
This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.
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 it’s going to make the data public.
Oakland, CA