This month features a great number of tutorials and webinars. Catch up on interviews with ML4EO experts, explore new datasets, data challenges, and applications, including ones focused on machine learning for weather and climate modeling. Learn more about February’s highlights below:
Methodologies & Applications
- An evaluation of Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 and MODIS data for crop type mapping
- PrecipGAN: Merging microwave and infrared data for satellite precipitation estimation using Generative Adversarial Network
- Physics-informed machine learning: case studies for weather and climate modelling
- Mapping urban land use in India and Mexico using remote sensing and machine learning
- New startup ZzappMalaria uses AI and satellite imagery to eradicate malaria
- Time-Series of Sentinel-1 interferometric coherence and backscatter for crop-type mapping
- Constraining Southern Ocean CO2 flux uncertainty using uncrewed surface vehicle observations
- OC-SMART: A machine learning based data analysis platform for satellite ocean color sensors
- DevelopmentSeed research show AI Mapping Risks to Wildlife in Tanzania
- Estimation of crop biomass and Leaf Area Index from multitemporal and multispectral imagery using machine learning approaches
- Combining simulated hyperspectral EnMAP and Landsat time series for forest aboveground biomass mapping
- Applying machine learning to assess vegetation health changes before and after desert locust attacks in Kenya
- Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests using machine-learning models
- Esri announces 8 new pre-trained deep learning models on ArcGIS
Data Access & Validation
- Archived Training Dataset Downloads now Available on Radiant MLHub
- AWS USGS 3DEP LiDAR public dataset now has a STAC catalog
- Cloud detection in satellite imagery by Azavea
- NASA EDS’ Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset
- NEON Tree Crowns dataset – A remote sensing derived data set of 100 million individual tree crowns for the National Ecological Observatory Network
Standards Research & Innovation
- The Path to STAC 1.0.0
- EODAG v2.0 just released
- Pangeo: Cloud-native data repositories for analysis-ready data, cloud-optimized formats
- COG Talk — Part 5 rio-tiler 2.0
Tutorials, Webinars (recorded) & Resources
TUTORIALS
- Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) with Python – improve how you access Satellite Images with COG and STAC Catalog
- A DYI demo to custom API built on top of TiTiler to create Web Map Tiles from the Digital Twin Sentinel-2 COG created by Sinergise
- Exploring the Cloud Forests– Using California Forest Observatory data and open geospatial standards (COGs and STAC) to make it easy to access, analyze and visualize it
- Change Detection of Structures in Panchromatic Imagery
- Digital Earth Africa: Capacity development for using EO data to drive development outcomes across Africa
WEBINARS
- Unlocking location-based insights with Planet satellite imagery and ArcGIS
- Enhancing Resolution of Thermal Satellite Imagery Lecture with Anamika Shreevastava from NASA JPL
- Equitable Climate Mitigation – The role of data science and AI
- ATLAS: Automating territory segmentation and measurements on drone imagery
PODCASTS
- Time Horizons: Remote Sensing with Machine Learning with Hannah Kerner
- Down to Earth: Remote Sensing and Forest Fires with Morgan Crowley
- Scene From Above: Sisters of SAR with Sarah Banks, Laura Dingle Robertson, Gopika Suresh
- Down to Earth: All Things SAR with Africa Flores-Anderson
RESOURCES
- Digital Twin Sandbox Sentinel-2 collection available to everyone
- CART: Announcing CARTO BigQuery Tiler General Availability
- Obscured by Clouds: A comparative analysis of cloud removal methods. The article is part of a series documenting the design, development, and implementation of a machine learning pipeline with satellite imagery
- SpaceNet 7 Results: Paper and winning model release
- ‘Machine learning for weather and climate modelling,’ A Theme Issue of Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society
- Helmets Labeling Crops: Lacuna Fund awarded to NASA Harvest partners
- The digital revolution of Earth-system science
- How Amazon Conservation Is cracking down on illegal mining with Planet data
- SuPER Excited! The HLS Subsetting, Processing, and Exporting Reformatted (HLS SuPER) Data Prep Script has been released by USGS
Data Challenges
- ESoWC 2021 Challenge Streams
- Earth Vision 2021 Challenges: DynamicEarthNet Land Cover Change Detection & FloodNet Semantic Segmentation
- The 2020 Climate Informatics Hackathon – Public Challenge
Conferences & Workshops
- GeoPython 2021 (April 22-23)
- First International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium of GRSS-Chile (June 2)
- CVPR 2021 (June 19-25)
- IGARSS’ 2021 Symposium (July 12-16)
- 2021 FOSS4G (September 27 – October 2)
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