I am pleased to present Radiant Earth Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report, documenting our journey connecting the global development community to Earth imagery and tools, as well as supporting the advancement of a vibrant cohort of spatial data users worldwide.

2018 proved to be another exciting year for Radiant Earth Foundation, in particular with the launch of our open source satellite imagery platform. The platform marked a key milestone of our original commitment to provide license-free data and tools to people around the world.

The Radiant Earth Foundation had the privilege of participating in the 2018 International Meeting on Emerging Diseases (IMED), a biennial conference hosted by the International Society for Infectious Diseases, November 9–12th in Vienna, Austria.

Join Yonah Bromberg Gaber, Platform Developer Community Associate, and Anna Mae Green, Community Engagement Associate at Radiant Earth Foundation to learn how to use satellite imagery in the real world. This webinar, targeted at users without experience with remote sensing, will demonstrate how to find the right imagery for your needs that you can select from the available image library, as well as adding your own imagery. All users, new and novice, are welcome. The webinar will be followed by a Q&A session.

Radiant Earth Foundation, a non-profit which aggregates open Earth imagery and geospatial data to equip global aid organizations with resources to meet the world’s most critical challenges, is partnering with leading blockchain software company ConsenSys to improve licensing processes for that data. With blockchain technology, information about our Earth can be more accessible to the organizations who need it most.

On October 25, 2018, at 11 am EST, join Radiant Earth Foundation’s Lead Geospatial Data Scientist Dr. Hamed Alemohammad and Geospatial Software Engineer Alando Ballantyne as they demonstrate the platform’s advanced analytical methods and tools. Topics to be covered include an overview of our API (python and non-raster APIs available via doc.radiant.earth), API endpoints and how to use them, How to extract/ export, Annotations, and Machine Learning, and more. A Q&A session will be held about the API capabilities.

On September 26, 2018 at 11:00 AM EST, join Radiant Earth Foundation’s Founder & CEO Ms. Anne Hale Miglarese, and Lead Geospatial Data Scientist, Dr. Hamed Alemohammad to learn how to access satellite imagery and data quicker, and run analysis faster and more efficiently. This webinar will provide an overview of non-profit Radiant Earth Foundation (formerly known as Radiant.Earth), as well as an interactive demonstration of the open platform capabilities, followed by a Q&A session.

Radiant Earth Foundation (formerly known as Radiant.Earth) announced today the release of its new open Earth imagery platform, fundamentally changing the way humanitarian aid workers, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and others use satellite images to understand and serve their communities. The platform is the first of its kind to offer instant, secure, and free access to Earth observation data on the cloud and help the global development community apply the data to real-world problems.

The overall goal of the event is to advance the interoperability of satellite data. The reality is that the use of satellite imagery is still a small niche, even though increased knowledge of our planet has the potential to make a huge difference in everyone’s lives. We believe a significant reason it remains a niche field is that going from raw pixels to actionable insight is still very difficult. As an industry, we force users to search for relevant data in many different locations and then put it on them to pre-process the imagery properly to perform their analysis.

March 08, 2018 — Radiant.Earth, a leader in open Earth imagery for the global development community, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Victoria M. Gammino as Chief Science Officer on March 4, 2018.