This week I'm one of about 50 people in attendance at the Planet Advisory Council, an invitation-only event for Planet's partners and customers. Here's what I learned today at their San Francisco headquarters.
Planet is now providing daily coverage of the entire earth. With all of this amazing data, it's time for the world to do something useful with it. Tonight at the Planet headquarters in San Francisco, they held a "science fair" where companies leveraging Planet's imagery can show off what they're doing. I spent the evening scribbling notes and emerged with one overarching theme: artificial intelligence. These companies have come up with incredible machine learning algorithms, business intelligence applications, and more — all of them unique, and all of them astonishing.GeoSpark
GeoSpark's business intelligence platform integrates layers of data and algorithms. Their web interface aggregates various sources, like RSS feeds, open data, social media, and news, and displays information over up-to-date satellite imagery. They've developed amazing artificial intelligence to analyze what news feeds are saying, make predictions, and build summaries and heat maps to display what's happening. For example, they can take current and past crime data and predict the likelihood of crime happening in an area, and display that as a colour-coded grid over an up-to-date basemap.CrowdAI
CrowdAI uses deep learning to discover features in satellite images. Their road detection AI is smarter and more accurate than the most popular mapping services out there. It analyzes up-to-date satellite imagery and automatically detects roads, buildings, and key changes in an area of interest.East View Geospatial
East View Geospatial both provides and analyzes geospatial data. They're able to apply expressions to satellite imagery for segmentation and classification. That is, they can distinguish what's in an image, extract pieces, and train the AI for classification models. For example, it can identify buildings in an image and extract them as polygons, or learn what solar panels look like and go find all of those in a given range of images.Raster Foundry
Raster Foundry's image browser first lets you select what you want from Planet's database of imagery with an impressive level of customization. Choose colour balance, saturation, band combination, and more. Then, you can label objects in the images you retrieve — say, ships — and their technology will learn the objects. It can be trained to understand what objects you're looking for in the imagery based on the labels you provide. Plus, you can add your own algorithms for more AI power.FarmersEdge
FarmersEdge is hardware, software, and a web service dedicated to agriculture. It starts with weather stations, which anyone can place on their farm for data collection. Satellite imagery comes in when we look at their web interface. Machine learning algorithms analyze the data and build models that help farmers make informed decisions. Their interface includes detailed data and intelligent models for crop management.Santiago & Cintra Consultoria
SCCON developed a deforestation alert system for Brazil. They use Planet imagery to get a high-resolution, daily look at the Amazon rainforest, and apply algorithms for change detection. Every week, alerts are sent if illegal deforestation is discovered. The results are presented on a webpage as an interactive dashboard with charts and maps.Orbital Insight
Orbital Insight uses AI to identify objects in satellite images. They provide traffic monitoring, asset counting, road identification, poverty mapping, and more. Their ability to identify objects reaches beyond what kind of object it is. For example, in an image of a construction zone, their algorithms are able to distinguish the stages of construction: this building doesn't have a roof, this area has concrete poured, this is undeveloped, this construction has just started, and so on.Safe Software
Of course, we were there! FME is a flexible platform that lets you integrate any data with Planet's satellite imagery, apply powerful transformations to the data, and automatically run your custom workflows in real time. What gets me so excited about what I learned today is how much potential there is to integrate with all of this amazing artificial intelligence. Imagine what a person can do by combining daily satellite imagery with any of these brilliant algorithms, and then adding custom integrations and automations with FME.Have you heard of other companies creating amazing AI for satellite imagery? Let me know!
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