In the second of the “AI in Africa” spotlight episodes, we welcome guests from Radiant Earth to talk about machine learning for earth observation. They give us a glimpse into their amazing data and tooling for working with satellite imagery, and they talk about use cases including crop identification and tropical storm wind speed estimation.

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Featuring:

• Hamed Alemohammad – X
• Abba Barde – LinkedIn, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
• Joyce Nabende – X

Show Notes:

• Radiant Earth
• ML for Earth Observation online course
• “Spot the crop” challenge
• Open for Good Alliance

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