New public datasets from Digital Earth Africa & Development Seed, an Earth Observation COVID-19 Dashboard from ESA, JAXA & NASA, examples of ML applications using EO, and the STAC 1.0-beta.1 release made for an eventful June in the ML4EO market. Learn more about these highlights below:
Geo-COVID19 Updates
- How Azavea built a national hospital dataset for Coronavirus relief
- Why geospatial technologies will be at the forefront as the world reopens
- How to map the impact of COVID-19 on your neighborhood using machine learning and satellite data
- Satellite data shows emissions are surging back as countries and states reopen
- Track South American air quality before and after lockdown via satellite data
- NASA, ESA, & JAXA release COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard
Methodologies & Applications
- Deep Learning with GPUs on Pangeo
- Meta-analysis of wetland classification using remote sensing: A systematic review of a 40-year trend in North America
- High-resolution mapping of forest canopy height using machine learning by coupling ICESat-2 LiDAR with Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data
- Modeling invasive plant species in Kenya’s northern rangelands
- Image Classification Labeling: Single class versus multiple class projects experiment
- Meta-Learning for few-shot land cover classification (paper, presentation by Sherrie Wang at EarthVision 2020)
- SpaceNet 6: exploring foundational mapping at scale
- Machine learning helps monitor crop growth
- How Earth observation data and analytics is helping tackle Climate Change
- Interview with Picterra: Geospatial data and ML enabling detection of 26,000 slurry tanks in few hours
- Monitoring 3D Urban Growth: an innovative approach integrating lidar processing with machine learning
- SatImNet: structured and harmonized training data for enhanced satellite imagery classification
Data Access & Validation
- BigEarthNet benchmark training dataset available on Radiant MLHub
- RarePlanes — Dataset, Paper, and Code Release
- Capella and SpaceNet deliver unique views of Earth with machine learning on AWS
- Operational and ready to use satellite data is now available across Africa from Digital Earth Africa
- Pangeo’s WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting updated
- DevelopmentSeed in partnership with NASA and AWS releases 3 new public datasets on AWS in COG format
- SpaceNet Data now available in Azavea’s labeling platform, GroundWork
- Digital Earth Africa uses a collaborative tool to remove barriers for data validation in Africa
Standards Research & Innovation
- STAC 1.0-beta.1 released
- Singergise and SentinelHub release new STAC compliant API
- STAC-browser now works with STAC 0.9 and STAC 1.0.0-beta
- How to recognize a COG and how to create a proper one
- TiTiler: STAC + COG
- Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (a.k.a COG) Twitter launched
White papers & Reports
- Remote Sensing and Machine Learning report from the UK Parliament POST
Tutorials, Webinars (recorded) & Resources
- Accessing and downloading training data on the Radiant MLHub API
- Richard Tiffin from Agrimetrics discusses using AI and EO data to forecast the impact of last Autumn’s adverse weather on 2020 wheat yield on Farmer’s Weekly Podcast (start at mark 09:25min)
- Tutorial: Getting started with snap toolbox in python
- 2020 AI4ESS summer School presentations
- AI4EO – An opportunity for computation sustainability
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