Geodata for Financial Institutions (Part 1/2)
There is a lot of geodata publicly available. The Copernicus programme, for example, hosts 6 families of satellites (Sentinel 1 - 6) consisting of...
How the Danish government used AI on satellite data to identify slurry tanks?
For the past few years, I heard a lot about the potential of Deep Learning in the geospatial industry to automate analytics and interpretation...
How to map the impact of COVID-19 on your neighborhood using machine learning and...
Life amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has been somewhat surreal. Though I have been fortunate enough to be able to work from home during these...
AI, satellite data to predict blazes ahead of US wildfire season
With COVID-19 threatening to make the already stressful wildfire season worse across the western United States, scientists are turning to satellite imagery and artificial...
How often do Google Maps get updated?
In 2005, Google launched an ambitious project to map the world. Today, more than a billion people use Google Maps every month. And every...
How do you test a self-driving car during a pandemic?
COVID-19 has forced most businesses to adopt virtual workplaces and Google spin-off Waymo is no different. The autonomous car company may have temporarily suspended...
NASA has a video game to map coral reefs around the world
Did you know that coral reefs provide homes for as many species as a tropical rainforest? A poster-child for nature-based tourism, these large underwater...
Qatar is banking on AI to improve GPS navigation for 2022 FIFA World Cup
The 22nd edition of the world’s biggest football tournament has been awarded to Qatar, the richest country in the world. But, despite having the...
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,...
Meet IMGeospatial: The startup that uses AI and Remote Sensing to extract actionable intelligence...
Extracting actionable business intelligence is a challenge for many companies. Add spatial data to the mix and the challenge just got a whole lot...
HD Maps: Moving Towards a New Safety Standard in Autonomous Driving
Far from being a novelty, car safety has been an important subject since the 19th century. From the invention of the hydraulic brake system...
Want to enrich your maps with 186 million geo-positioned roadside objects?
Because you can. No kidding.
Geoawesome startup Mapillary has just fueled its map features repository with more than 186 million roadside objects, so autonomous vehicles...
Expanding Mapping Capabilities with Deep Learning
Last year I wrote about how computer vision is helping us harness the power of machines to understand the world, and how for updating...
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...
The future of mapping is living maps
Over the past few decades messaging took over communication, broadcast video shifted to on-demand video, and operating systems took on entirely new forms in...
