This month, Radiant Earth released LandCoverNet, a land cover classification training dataset, and Facebook and Esri partnered to release new OSM ready datasets. Other highlights include data challenge announcements, continued EO expert support towards the COVID-19 pandemic response, upcoming STAC sprint 6, ML4EO tutorials, and more. Explore the details below.
Geo-COVID19 Updates
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics COVID-19 Data Hub
- Mobility and COVID Infection Rates: Analysis of 1129 US cities and counties shows diverging patterns in the relationship between mobility and infection
- COVID in India: Reopening a Country of 1.3B People
- Updates to the COVID Act Now API (V1)
- Zindi’s AI4D data challenge winner’s machine learning model accurately predicts covid-19 deaths in 209 countries approximately 2 months ahead
- Space Apps COVID-19 Challenges
- A rapid and reproducible picture of open access health facility data in Africa to support the COVID-19 response
- Big data & COVID-19: Intro panel on the challenges and solutions
- Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 and climate change on pastoral populations in the Sahel
- GRID3 interactive data visualization: mapping a path for COVID-19 response
- New research using geospatial data and techniques in response to COVID-19 helps bridge knowledge gaps and risk in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Esri and the UN create COVID-19 population vulnerability dashboard
- FAO launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
Methodologies & Applications
- Minerva Intelligence, a Vancouver company launches Sea to Sky Landslide Map, a platform that gathers potentially disastrous data and using cognitive AI to synthesize it
- A deep learning model can see far better than you
- The Landsat Burned Area algorithm and products for the conterminous United States. USGS summarized the paper in an article
- WhiteboxTools v1.3.1 with 443 tools for geospatial analysis released
- Using techniques learnt in astrophysics, researchers can now forecast drought up to ten weeks ahead
- SpaceNet 6: Winning Model Release
- SD-RSIC: Summarization Driven Deep Remote Sensing Image Captioning
- SAR-RBG-DataFusion: A small codebase featuring a few elementary methods for SAR and Optical imagery data fusion from SpaceNet 6 challenge
- Balancing the Regularization Effect of Data Augmentation
- Precomputed S2cloudless masks are now available within SentinelHub.
Data Access & Validation
- Radiant Earth Foundation releases the benchmark training data “LandCoverNet” for Africa
- Radiant MLHub hosts STAC-Compliant SpaceNet’s Datasets
- OSM-ready data sets: Improving OpenStreetMap with Esri and Map With AI
Standards Research & Innovation
- PySTAC 0.4.0 is released, with support for STAC 0.9.0
- New Beta version of rio-tiler, a Rasterio plugin to read mercator tiles from Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF data is released
- Join STAC Sprint #6 — its first fully remote event
Tutorials, Webinars (recorded) & Resources
- Open Earth Observation data in the age of machine learning
- Introducing the Solaris Multimodal Preprocessing Library, a new resource for geospatial deep learning – Watch the TUTORIAL here
- UP42 adds exactEarth ship tracking data to geospatial marketplace. Users have direct access to extensive Earth observation data sets and advanced processing algorithms
- TUTORIAL: How to use the Radiant MLHub API (updated)
- TUTORIAL: A python package for interactive mapping with Google Earth Engine
- PODCAST: Scene from above discuss evaluating deep learning and Geospatial with CosmiQWorks
- PODCAST: SpaceNet 6 Challenge Results: Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping
- The Rockefeller Foundation, org, and the International Development Research Centre launched Lacuna Fund, a new funding opportunity to close the data gap for machine learning applications for African agriculture
- WEBINAR: How can AI tackle climate change
- Best libraries for geospatial data visualisation in python
- Artificial Intelligence for analysts in the age of rapid revisit
Data Challenges & Conferences
- Announcing SpaceNet 7: The Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge
- Maxar Spatial Challenge: Finding unique geospatial solutions for Australia
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society registration now open for its virtual conference, scheduled for Sept 26 – Oct 2
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