What is contact tracing and why do Apple and Google want to do it?
Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through proximity to affected individuals, public health workers have identified contact tracing as an essential tool to flatten the...
Covid19 Impact on Barcelona Retail
What's the impact of covid19 on Barcelona retail?
At Eixos Economic Observatory we’ve used our fieldwork data to shed light on the current covid19 lockdown...
Facebook bolsters COVID-19 fight with new Disease Prevention Maps
Accurate data is one of the most fundamental tools in any public safety agency’s arsenal against COVID-19. And who better to provide health experts...
Using Location Data To Tackle The Coronavirus Pandemic
With over a third of the world's population in some form of lockdown and more than half a million people infected by Coronavirus, Governments...
Why Descartes Labs is convinced it can make geospatial AI your core business competency
As a spatial analytics firm that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect objects and patterns hidden inside petabytes of remotely sensed data,...
What can SIM cards tell us about the tourism industry?
A lot, as it turns out.
Most of us have our phones in our pockets (or hands) most of the time. When we walk, when...
Here’s why 2019 is poised to be an exciting year for Geospatial analytics
In the last five years, we’ve witnessed many incredible advances in the geospatial analytics industry. With the ability to launch dozens of small satellites...
Meet Orbital Insight – the Geospatial AI startup that provides answers on demand!
Remember that scene in the TV show Billions where the protagonist, Bobby Alexrod explains how all the big (hedge) funds are using satellite images...
Taxis in Japan turn to AI to take on ridesharing services
Picture this: It is 8 am. You have successfully tackled the morning rush, packed your lunch, and even managed to grab some breakfast. All...
Monitoring global ship traffic
Since ever oceans have been important for people as a means of transport. The containerization counts as greatest transportation revolution in the 20th century...
Uber launched a new service that could help cities master their traffic
Traffic and transportation planning is a tricky business. Local governments have been struggling for years to make good, data-driven decisions to transform cities into...
Planet & Orbital Insight: Satellite Imagery & Machine Learning In the Financial Markets
A few years ago when startups like Planet Labs (now Planet), Skybox Imaging (now Terra Bella) started their ambitious efforts to monitor the planet with...
DigitalGlobe partners with Uber: Geospatial BigData to help improve the “Uber experience”
Uber has made no secret of their interests in developing self-driving cars and has been driving mapping cars around for a while now but...
World Economic Forum’s 2016 Technology Pioneers: 4 Geospatial companies in the list!!
Each year the World Economic Forum awards the most innovative and impactful early-stage tech companies on the planet with their "Technology Pioneer" award. The award...
Location Intelligence: Foursquare does an amazing job predicting Chipotle’s Q1 results
Two weeks before Chipotle was set to announce its Q1 results, Foursquare's CEO wrote a blog post on medium predicting that the chain will...