Project Geospatial

Ben Tuttle discusses EOI Space and their constellation, which aims to provide high-resolution data and increase collection capacity. They plan to offer data processing and analytics at the edge to enable quick decision-making. They also highlight their unique low-light imaging capabilities and potential partnerships with analytics providers.

🛰️ EOI Space aims to provide high-resolution data and increase collection capacity.

📊 They offer data processing and analytics at the edge for quick decision-making.

🌃 Their unique low-light imaging capabilities are underutilized but offer potential in analyzing the supply chain.

⏰ They aim for sub-hour revisit rates and have pre-booked launches with SpaceX.

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Jasmin Inbar discusses the Aurora Alliance and a few of its major highlights

🚀 The importance of Aurora Alliance in the field of geospatial intelligence is highlighted.

🌐 The alliance aims to bring together different organizations for collaborative efforts.

🌟 Aurora Alliance focuses on leveraging geospatial data for better decision-making.

📈 The future prospects and advancements in the field are explored.

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Katie Betts, from Albedo, discusses their mission to build a constellation of imaging satellites that will collect high-resolution imagery for various industries such as energy, agriculture, and property insurers. They aim to provide easy-to-understand imagery to break down barriers to entry in the geospatial industry.

🛰️ Albedo is building imaging satellites for high-resolution imagery

🌍 Target markets include energy, agriculture, and property insurers

🚀 First launch is in 10 months, with live data available in summer 2025

🌱 Albedo aims to attract new audiences to the geospatial industry

📚 They believe maps and imagery can enhance any line of business

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Josh Campbell gave a lightning talk at FedGeoDay 2024, introducing the World Polygons data set that was recently released after four years of work.

Highlights

🌍 World Polygons data set released after four years of work

🗺️ Boundaries are crucial for foreign policy and cartographic purposes

🌐 Lines in base maps can be challenging for the US Government

🌐 World Polygons provides vertex perfect country or entity polygons

🌐 World Polygons available for download at geodata.state.gov

📊 Data set designed to be a Rosetta Stone for integrating with other country data

📥 Download includes GIS application file and styling file for easy use

Jeremy Malczyk, a Cloud geographer at Google, discusses how AI is used to refine and analyze large amounts of data in the cloud. Google’s Earth Engine platform combines open source and proprietary tools to deliver actionable insights from 100 petabytes of data, covering 40 years of imagery. They have also developed land cover and cloud monitoring products using AI, which have practical applications such as monitoring changes on the ground and saving costs for the US Census Bureau. Google is working towards building comprehensive models that can understand and analyze various aspects of the world, such as agricultural boundaries and multimodal imagery.

Highlights

🌐 Google’s Earth Engine platform combines AI and cloud tools to analyze massive amounts of data.

📊 Land cover and cloud monitoring products have been developed using AI, resulting in valuable insights.

💡 Google aims to build comprehensive models that can understand different aspects of the world.

🌍 These models have practical applications, such as monitoring changes on the ground and supporting sustainable agriculture.

📈 The use of sophisticated AI models has improved the value obtained from data analysis.

🚀 Google is integrating its AI platform with open-source tools and frameworks like TensorFlow.

📚 Google’s collaborative ecosystem allows users to access and utilize the Earth Engine platform effectively.

About FedGeoDay:

FedGeoDay is the premier annual event for the open source geospatial community within the U.S. federal government. It brings together federal program managers, technology leaders, industry partners, and open-source enthusiasts to share ideas, showcase innovations, and foster collaboration around open geospatial technologies, data, and practices. FedGeoDay highlights the growing importance of open source in building resilient, efficient, and collaborative geospatial solutions for the federal government and beyond.

Dr. Daniel Roman from Noah’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) discusses the modernization of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) to improve accuracy and accessibility of geospatial data.

Highlights

🌍 The NSRS provides a consistent coordinate system for latitude, longitude, height, and gravity.

🔄 Modernizing the NSRS aims to meet modern needs and ensure compatibility with global colleagues.

📊 Access to a consistent and accurate reference system allows for integration of various data sets.

📐 NGS will replace existing datums with new reference frames specific to US states and territories.

🛠 Transformation tools will be provided to convert data from the current datum to the new reference frames.

📍 Determine your precision and accuracy requirements to select the appropriate tools and methodologies.

📚 Training videos and data expertise are available to assist with understanding and utilizing the updated NSRS.

This panel discussion at FedGeoDay 2024 focused on the use of AI and remote sensing in geospatial data. Panelists discussed their current use of AI/ML, successes, challenges, and future possibilities.

Highlights

🌍 The panelists represented organizations such as Oakridge National Laboratory, US Forest Service, NASA, and US Geological Survey.

🏢 The Forest Service is passively using AI/ML in geospatial programs and exploring use cases, legal ramifications, and policy implications.

🗺️ The US Geological Survey is actively using AI/ML in various applications, including characterizing landform data using historical maps.

🚀 NASA has experimented with AI/ML in autonomous drone research, wildfire prediction, hurricane strength prediction, and space telescope data analysis.

🌆 Oakridge National Laboratory is using AI/ML in population modeling, mapping built infrastructure, and merging data sets using natural language processing (NLP).

About FedGeoDay:

FedGeoDay is the premier annual event for the open source geospatial community within the U.S. federal government. It brings together federal program managers, technology leaders, industry partners, and open-source enthusiasts to share ideas, showcase innovations, and foster collaboration around open geospatial technologies, data, and practices. FedGeoDay highlights the growing importance of open source in building resilient, efficient, and collaborative geospatial solutions for the federal government and beyond.

Highlights

* Open source geospatial data and tools are becoming increasingly important 🗺️

* You can find valuable information using open source geospatial data 🔍

* Chat GPT is a helpful tool that can be used to write code and scripts 🤖

* Interoperability is a major issue with geospatial data and tools 🧩

* Hybrid space AR architecture and large models have great potential 🚀

About FedGeoDay:

FedGeoDay is the premier annual event for the open source geospatial community within the U.S. federal government. It brings together federal program managers, technology leaders, industry partners, and open-source enthusiasts to share ideas, showcase innovations, and foster collaboration around open geospatial technologies, data, and practices. FedGeoDay highlights the growing importance of open source in building resilient, efficient, and collaborative geospatial solutions for the federal government and beyond.

Robert Pitts, from New Light Technologies, introduces their consultancy’s work in building data infrastructures and user experiences to support various organizations in improving outcomes and equity in areas such as public health, economic prosperity, and emergency management. They have developed an incident management tool called IMPACT that assesses risks in real time and provides reliable exposure predictions using AI models and advanced risk scoring methodology. The tool ingests open data sources and disseminates information through alerting and reporting services, web platforms, and APIs. Their approach has successfully overcome challenges in delivering actionable insights for emergency management by leveraging open data, science, modeling, and open source software.

Highlights

🌐 New Light Technologies is helping build data infrastructures and user experiences to support various organizations.

🌀 The IMPACT tool assesses risks in real time and provides reliable exposure predictions using AI models and advanced risk scoring methodology.

🌍 Open data sources are ingested into a cloud-based modeling and workflow engine, which feeds the web reporting platform.

📊 The tool provides actionable insights for emergency management, supporting logistics planning, evacuations, and damage assessments.

🚀 New Light Technologies leverages the growing ecosystem of open data, open science, modeling, and open source software.

Josh Coutts, a geographer with the US Census Bureau, discussed a new project to release census data using a standard grid. The aim is to make the data more accessible and interoperable across various applications and use cases. The current small area geographic units can be inflexible and challenging to integrate with other data sets, hindering temporal analysis and comparisons. Grids provide a stable and structured dataset for small area analysis and integration with different data sources.

Highlights

🗺️ The US Census Bureau is working on a project to release census data using a standard grid.

🔄 Grids ensure data accessibility and interoperability across applications.

🌍 Small area geographic units can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with other datasets.

📈 Grids facilitate small area analysis and integration with various data sources.

📏 1-kilometer grid cells are a common unit used by national statistical offices globally.

🌐 1-kilometer grid cells are familiar and provide a human-scale perspective.

🚀 The project is currently in the research and development phase, with stakeholder outreach and feedback being sought.

About FedGeoDay:

FedGeoDay is the premier annual event for the open source geospatial community within the U.S. federal government. It brings together federal program managers, technology leaders, industry partners, and open-source enthusiasts to share ideas, showcase innovations, and foster collaboration around open geospatial technologies, data, and practices. FedGeoDay highlights the growing importance of open source in building resilient, efficient, and collaborative geospatial solutions for the federal government and beyond.