Updates on Source Cooperative, our immediate roadmap, and introducing the Source Cooperative Advisory Board.| radiant.earth
A talk given at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs arguing that 21st century institutions need to understand how to accrue and wield their own power on the Internet.| radiant.earth
We know it’s possible to build new data infrastructure, but we urgently need to figure out how to do so sustainably and ethically. Join us at CNG Conference and at Fed Geo Day as we find ways to build the future together.| radiant.earth
We are happy to announce that Radiant Earth has received funding from The Navigation Fund to support development of Source Cooperative.| radiant.earth
We are happy to announce that Radiant Earth has received funding from Splunk, a Cisco company. This funding accelerates our work on the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) which aims to empower communities everywhere by making geospatial data more accessible, usable, and beneficial. The support from Splunk allows us to create free content such as our recent webinars to help women advance their careers in geospatial data science and to showcase African use cases of geospatial data. It also all...| Radiant Earth Blog
An overview of our work with the Taylor Geospatial Engine to create a common way to share field boundary data at scale.| radiant.earth
Slides and speech given at the opening plenary of SatSummit 2024.| radiant.earth
In honor of International Women’s Day, we are pleased to announce the 2024 Leading Women in Earth Science - 10 women transforming how we access and work with vast geospatial datasets.| radiant.earth
We are pleased to welcome Mala Kumar to our Board of Directors. In this Q&A profile, we talk with Mala about her career journey, joining our Board, and the intersections between technology and the narratives that shape our world.| radiant.earth
A few four-legged animal metaphors that explain how we’ve been building global data infrastructure to date and how we might do better in the future.| radiant.earth
An update on development of Source Cooperative and why we're building it.| radiant.earth
Radiant Earth, PLACE, Spatial Collective, and the Kenyan Space Agency (KSA) are collaborating on a pilot project to collect and curate labeled high-resolution agricultural data for open access and public benefit in Kenya. The project will also foster data engineering and analysis skills development in Kenya. Historically, it has been expensive to produce high-resolution aerial imagery, which means that such data is typically produced and maintained by commercial sector organizations who use i...| Radiant Earth
Introducing Rahebeh Abedi, a Ph.D. student at Clark University’s School of Geography and our Summer Intern. Rahebeh is a recipient of the Graduate Research Fellowship from the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund, funded to work on crop type modeling with Radiant Earth. Her research focuses on the prediction of crop types in different regions of the United States using computer models and ground truth labels provided by the USDA’s Cropland Data Layer. Rahebeh will focus her research on areas with inc...| Radiant Earth
On April 25, with the help of 47 contributors and 2,790 commits, the STAC API specification reached its 1.0.0 version release. With this release, the STAC API specification is fully aligned with OGC API - Features Version 1.0 standard and the project aims to maintain alignment with OGC standards as they mature. Looking back Reaching this point merits a quick look at the beginning of the project, which was started on 12 May 2017 with a brief readme file created by Chris Holmes: About This repo...| Radiant Earth
Dr. Brianna Rita Pagán is Deputy Manager at NASA’s Goddard Earth Sciences and adjunct Professor at Loyola Marymount University’s Seaver College of Science and Engineering. With a Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering from Ghent University and numerous publications, Brianna has made significant contributions to push the advancement and accessibility of environmental solutions. In January 2023, Brianna volunteered to coordinate the community development process of GeoZarr, a project that aims to...| Radiant Earth
We have entered into an agreement with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory to expand access to climate data.| radiant.earth
We are pleased to announce that Radiant Earth has joined the PLACE Community as a Founding Member. By joining this community, Radiant supports PLACE’s mission to map urban areas in Africa and the Caribbean in high-resolution and make these maps open, dependable, and accessible to governments and members. As part of this commitment, Radiant Earth and PLACE will co-develop new features for Source Cooperative, our neutral data publishing utility that allows trusted organizations and individual...| Radiant Earth
First published at https://www.planet.com In January of 2021, Planet set out to lead the RapidAI4EO consortium to advance state-of-the-art, continuous land monitoring applications throughout Europe. The initiative was awarded a competitive grant under the Horizon 2020 program to develop improved AI processes and provide critical training data for higher frequency updates of land use land cover. As an output of this program, today, we are proud to share the release of one of the largest (both ...| Radiant Earth
On May 11, we launched two new initiatives to increase the sharing of Earth science data and accelerate scientific research that will increase the shared understanding of our world: Source Cooperative and the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation. These two initiatives are designed to make Earth science data more accessible and easier to use, which will help scientists to better understand our planet and the challenges it faces. Source Cooperative is a neutral data publishing utility. It will of...| Radiant Earth
Announcing some changes to the Radiant Earth brand and our plans to serve our community moving forward.| radiant.earth
Meet Aimee Barciauskas We had the pleasure of interviewing Aimee Barciauskas, a Data Engineer at Development Seed who is passionate about leveraging technology to make a positive social impact. Aimee specializes in developing cloud-native solutions for analyzing and processing geospatial data. She has contributed to NASA’s Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform, The Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) Project, and is part of the Pangeo project, and the Earth Systems ...| Radiant Earth
Why the term "open data" has become unhelpful and why we focus on making more data more available to more people.| radiant.earth
Food insecurity is a significant challenge in Africa, affecting millions of people across the continent. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an estimated 282 million people in Africa were affected by hunger in 2020, up from 236 million in 2019. Smallholder farmers are the backbone of agriculture in many low- and middle-income countries, and their livelihoods depend on their ability to maximize yields and efficiently use resources. Accurately detecting field boundaries is...| Radiant Earth
Meet Muhamed Tuo We are excited to introduce Muhamed Tuo, a data scientist and a member of the winning team of the AgriFieldNet India Challenge. This competition aimed to classify crop types in agricultural fields across Northern India and was hosted on Zindi. It was organized with a grant from the Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale (ECAAS) Initiative, which is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by Tetra Tech. The competition concluded in October 2022, with 635 participan...| Radiant Earth
By Jed Sundwall, Executive Director of Radiant Earth USGS animation showing how Cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs enable precise access to data. In our November post about democratization of Earth observation technologies, I promised to share some history of the Cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) in a future post. This post fulfills that promise and includes some insights into the thinking behind the COG and how it emerged as a community standard. My hope is that sharing this history can help explain what ...| Radiant Earth
Meet the women shaping the future of Earth Science Happy International Women’s Day! As we work to create a more inclusive and diverse Earth Science community, today is an important day to recognize exceptional women who are pushing the boundaries of their fields and shaping the future of Earth science. Nominated by their peers, these women have made significant contributions to science through their innovative research, pioneering discoveries, and groundbreaking work, all while fostering an...| Radiant Earth
Meet Gina Trapani We are excited to have Gina Trapani join the Radiant Earth board of directors, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise from her career in the technology industry. Gina is currently the CEO at Postlight, a leading digital strategy and software engineering firm in New York City. She is also an accomplished writer who has published pieces in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Wired Magazine. Gina has worked tirelessly throughout her career to build techn...| Radiant Earth
We are excited to announce the release of the Radiant Earth 2022 Annual Report, a comprehensive overview of our achievements and plans for the future. Our team’s hard work and dedication over the past year have led to significant progress and impacts, including: The creation of LandCoverNet, the first multi-mission global land cover training dataset; An expansion of our geodiverse training datasets with 39 new additions to our repository, Radiant ML Hub; The ability to share and retrieve ge...| Radiant Earth
It is time to say goodbye to our monthly industry round-up newsletter, the ML4EO Market News. We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last five years. Since our first newsletter in February 2018, we have surveyed our community to find the most impactful and useful insights about the state of machine learning and Earth observation. The truth is that our community has outgrown just one newsletter, and we simply can’t do it justice in its current form. While we will no longer be compiling mon...| Radiant Earth
Radiant Earth, a nonprofit technology company supporting open machine learning technologies for Earth science, today released a white paper exploring a data ethics framework for farmers to achieve data ownership. Emerging technologies, such as those combining artificial intelligence and Earth observation satellite data, are essential to “smart farming” innovations. They provide the necessary information to develop agricultural monitoring systems such as cropland and crop type mapping. Sti...| Radiant Earth
Three inventions we’re working on at Radiant Earth.| radiant.earth
Meet Mohammad Alasawdah, our Community Voice for the last quarter of 2022. Mohammad is an Earth observation and climate data science researcher at Eurac Research, focusing on issues that affect people, their health, and the environment around them. The organization aims to improve life in the societies of the future. Mohammad holds a joint master of science degree in geospatial technologies from the University of Münster, NOVA University, and Jaume I University. His research projects include...| Radiant Earth
An explanation of the architecture behind the serverless tile serving service at tiles.rdnt.io.| radiant.earth
The framework we use to guide our work at Radiant Earth| radiant.earth