August 19th, 2015
Via Red Bulletin, an interesting look at Orbital Insight, a geospatial Big Data company leveraging the rapidly growing availability of satellite, UAV, and other geospatial data sources, to understand and characterize socio-economic trends at global, regional, and hyper-local scales:
La forêt de Mariba, Ouganda : le 27 novembre 2001 (à gauche), le 25 janvier 2006 (à droite).
What?
Technology that monitors deforestation.
Why?
To protect the world’s forests.
When?
Now. California startup Orbital Insight has partnered with Global Forest Watch to create a system that monitors and flags suspicious changes around forested areas, such as unexpected new roads. As the system’s neural network recognizes more and increasingly detailed patterns, it will become more accurate at detecting changes and helping to prevent illegal deforestation.
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