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Generating truly useful solutions to real problems with the help of user experience and AI
We discuss how AI and user experience methodologies might serve to connect scientists and researchers back to important data and technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.
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Generating truly useful solutions to real problems with the help of user experience and AI
We discuss how AI and user experience methodologies might serve to connect scientists and researchers back to important data and technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.
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The State of Geospatial AI Heading into 2025
For the second year in a row, I spent the week after Thanksgiving in Las Vegas, immersed in AWS re:Invent. Last year’s conference left me energized and inspired— geospatial AI was just beginning to emerge as a transformative force. This year, as anticipated, AI took center stage, with a wealth of sessions dedicated to its…
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Finding Changes on the Earth with Natural Language
We discuss our work with Natural Language Driven Geospatial Change Detection with Vector Embeddings. This technology builds on our ongoing development of generative AI and vision models that enables users to explore our world through natural language queries.
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Enhancing accessibility in a wildfire risk web application
Wildfires in the U.S. are becoming larger and more destructive driven by climate change, a century of forest mismanagement, and increasingly more construction in fire-prone areas. Since 2019, our team has contributed to Wildfire Risk to Communities, a free resource by the USDA Forest Service and Pyrologix in partnership with Headwaters Economics. Element 84 designed…
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STAPI Sprint #4: Interoperability for Satellite Data Ordering
During our most recent STAPI sprint we brought together attendees from across the geospatial industry to discuss interoperability for satellite data ordering.
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Sustainable AI: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Costs, and Keep Your Users Happy
Our team at Element 84 is excited about AI’s potential to help in building systems, understanding the impacts of climate change, and generally helping users access data. At the same time, we’re also concerned with the environmental impact of using this technology. Hugging Face sums up the issue well in their AI Environment Primer: Artificial…
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Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
We introduce the second iteration of our geospatial technology radar, which is designed as a resource for the community to outline impactful technologies in the space.
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Segmenting Sandstorms in Satellite Imagery
In this blog, we walk through our approach to segmenting sandstorms in satellite imagery, evaluate the quality of our results, and compare them against existing solutions.
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Emerging trends in geospatial: May 2024
In this post, we highlight a few of the trends in geospatial our team noticed at SatSummit, and we’re outlining how we plan to integrate these trends into our work.
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Natural Language Geocoding
We discuss how natural language geocoding is changing the landscape of data analysis, making it more accessible and efficient.
