Explore the latest training data, new STAC tools (like the STAC Browser v3.0.0-alpha.2), a range of applications tackling climate related problems, webinars including ESIP workshops, tutorials with QGIS, and more from this past month!
Methodologies & Applications
- Using satellite imagery to estimate flood extent and population exposure for 913 large flood events from 2000 to 2018
- Earthquake damage detection based on satellite imagery and digital urban data
- An integrated approach of field, weather, and satellite data for monitoring maize phenology
- Linking sap flow measurements with Earth observation
- Biodiversity decline with increasing crop productivity in agricultural fields revealed by satellite remote sensing
- A forest monitoring system for Tanzania using Landsat 8 imagery for conservation
- Using sentinel-1 and sentinel-2 time series for slangbos mapping in the Free State Province of South Africa
- Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing
- Forecasting deforestation in the Amazon to prioritize conservation efforts
- Towards neural Earth system modelling by integrating artificial intelligence in Earth system science
- Seasonal arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning
Data Access & Validation
- The Global Flood Database by Cloud to Street
- Government of Canada releases Annual Crop Inventory Ground Truth Data
- GLAD releases 2019 global land cover and land use map
Standards Research & Innovation
- Expression of Interest to join the Geospatial Machine Learning Model Catalog (GMLMC) discussions
- STAC Browser v3.0.0-alpha.2 now supports API, including long-awaited pagination and filtering for collection items.
- STAC FastAPI released supporting STAC API 1.0.0-beta3, and with filter extension, CQL support and more
- PySTAC-client 0.2.0 released, a CLI and Python library especially useful for working with STAC APIs to enable easy searching
- v1.0.0beta.3 of the STAC API released
- Cog Worker, a python library for GIS analysis on COGs
- OGC call for sponsors: Testbed-18, a collaborative opportunity to tackle location data and processing challenges
- Draft specification for Cloud Optimized Point Cloud
Tutorials, Webinars (recorded) & Resources
TUTORIALS
- Using artificial intelligence to predict the spread of wildfires with Python
- Benchmark solution tutorial: How to map floodwater from radar imagery using semantic segmentation
- Working with geospatial data in Python, part 1
- Mapping of hand-harvested crops using a random forest classifier in California
- Use Mapflow plug-in for QGIS for AI-mapping
- How to estimate population density for anywhere on Earth using Facebook’s High Resolution Settlement Layer dataset
- Using satellite images and GIS to estimate landfill rates at Pulau Semakau, Singapore’s only landfill site
WEBINARS
- Radiant Earth Foundation: Guiding Spot the Crop Data Challenge participants
- ESIP Summer Meeting: Best practices for reusability of machine learning models, guideline and specification
- ESIP Summer Meeting: AI Data Readiness – What does ML training data interoperability mean to You? Examples and use cases
- ESIP Summer Meeting: New frontiers in AI for Earth and space with big data and parallel computing
- ESIP Cloud Computing Cluster: Deep dive into TileDb
- EarthVision 2021 at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference
- Sustain What webcast: Identifying paths for risk reduction in the world’s dangerous flood zones through mapping
- The ASDAF: Predicting field-level cane and sugar yields through satellite imagery and environmental data to train a machine learning model
- ICIMOD: Developing an Earth observation-based landslide monitoring and forecast system
- IARAI Research: ICML 2021, a fireside chat about the Earth observed by machines
PODCASTS
- Nature Podcast: Flood risk rises as people surge into vulnerable regions
- Mapscaping: The problem with satellite data is that it not a commodity with Joe Morrison
- Mapscaping: Simone Giannecchini talks about Mapstore, an open GIS application
- Scene from Above: Earth observation and Digital twins, Remote Pixel, Landsat 9 and STAC
- Geomob: Paul Ramsey tells the story of PostGIS and talks open source
- Geomob: A preview of FOSS4G with Verónica Andreo and María Arias de Reyna
RESOURCES
- Earth observation using python: a practical guide
- Digital Earth Australia notebooks and tools repository including guides, datasets, code, real world examples, scientific workflows
- SERVIR-Mekong enhances climate change adaptation in the Lower Mekong
- Call for proposals: Climate Change AI Innovation Grants for research at the intersection of AI and climate change
- Climate Change AI develops a searchable web tool for past climate change and machine learning workshop papers
- How machine learning is helping us fine-tune climate models to reach unprecedented detail
- Challenges of using machine learning on Earth observation data
- Remote sensing and machine learning reveal archaic shell rings
- Data4SDG’s: Ways to build inclusivity into data-enabled climate action
- Introduction to AI for social good, a relatively new research field at the intersection of AI and a number of other fields
- Free resources to learn geospatial data science
- Using machine learning and satellite images to improve human lives at a global scale
- Deep learning for the Earth Sciences with applications and R, second edition
Data Challenges
- Africa Earth Observation Challenge (ends September 26)
- AI4EO – Enhanced Sentinel 2 Agriculture (ends September 30)
- Microsoft AI for Earth & Cloud2Street – STAC Overflow: Map Floodwater from Radar Imagery (ends September 30)
- Kigali NASA International Space Apps Challenge (October 1-3)
- Radiant Earth Spot the Crop Challenge’s — track 1 and track 2 (ends October 3)
- ESA – AI for Earth Challenge (kickoff September 1, ends October 29)
- EarthNet 2021: A machine learning challenge for Earth surface and localized impact forecasting
- The 2020 Climate Informatics Hackathon – Public Challenge (open)
Conferences & Workshops
- 2021 FOSS4G (Sep 27 – Oct 2)
- ESA ɸ- Week 2021 (Oct 11-15)
- Planet Explore 2021 (Oct 12-13)
- Geo for Good Summit (Nov 16-19)
- NeurIPS 2021 Workshop (Dec 13 or 14, TBD)
- AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (Dec 13-17)
What are we missing? Contact Louisa@radiant.earth