Source: ATYUN AI platform
A flourishing field of development? Geospatial analysis, which is a satellite used to track traffic from retail to food production of all products in the industry.
Crawford explained that, Orbital Insight How many cars can provide data storage capacity of petroleum-related land large storage container or a Wal-Mart parking lot there.
These data have practical economic value. "For example, the number of cars is a predictor of a supermarket sales," Crawford said.
"We are screening every day image of the entire world, and artificial intelligence so that we can deal with it and we are in the middle of two major revolution: artificial intelligence and commercial space," he added.
Global Data Set
Descartes laboratory was launched in 2014, its goal is to use artificial intelligence processing a large number of satellite data. The first application of this technique is to model the US corn production.
"Cornfield in terms of image resolution is ideal for satellite. Great cornfield, corn grow slowly and do not wander," said Mark Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Descartes laboratory he said.
Satellite positioning for the image field, wherein the crops grown figure, the health assessment of crop, and then calculate the possible production levels.
"Satellite is taking pictures throughout the world. It is a global data set," he said. "We are a modern machine learning techniques applied to these data, and use it to better understand our planet," he said.
Beyond business applications
Crawford from Orbital Insight believes that the resolution of satellite images will improve and become cheaper, which means faster, more accurate insights.
"We will be able to explain how in the middle of Black Friday sales by calculating the mall parking lot in the car. We intraday data from satellite data insight than three to five years. It will grow from there it has the ability to really help us understand what is happening in the economy. "
Given the relative novelty of the commercial satellite industry, Mark Johnson believes that "in the face of the power of geospatial analysis is only the beginning of" us.
Beyond the scope of application of the technology business.
"Being in tracking the impact of deforestation, climate change and food security," Crawford said. "Data relating to building height and density of cities can contribute to poverty mapping."
Johnson said the opinions satellite data can be used to help a real person. For example, he said the Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers used laboratory Descartes database to find a specific pool of stagnant water areas, so that they can draw mosquitoes to develop risk maps and disease prevention measures.
"From a financial point of view, more accurate forecasting and the ability to do this is obviously very interesting," Johnson said. "But why everyday people should be concerned about this technology for many reasons."
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