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Impact Observatory Announces the General Availability of IO Monitor to Deliver AI-Powered Global Space-based High Resolution Living Land Cover Land Maps
IO Monitor Enables Customers to Understand Climate, Financial, and Environmental Risk in Near Real-time and at Previously Unobtainable Speed and Scale.
Upstream Tech
Exploring Custom Land Use & Land Cover Maps for Monitoring Change
Join us for a session introducing Custom Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change maps from Impact Observatory, which enable decision makers to understand risks and anticipate change in near-real-time.
Minds Behind Maps
Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact Observatory, Descartes Labs & National Geographic
Steve Brumby is the founder & CTO of Impact Observatory, a company working on providing rapid land cover maps anywhere on Earth. He puts it as wanting to provide "the maps the US takes for granted, all around the globe". Steve was also a co-founder & the CTO at Descartes Labs and worked at National Geographic.
IO Press Release
AI-Powered Impact Observatory Announces Partnership with Planet to Deliver Near Real-Time Change Monitoring with Best-in-Market Accuracy, Frequency and Resolution
Collaboration leverages PlanetScope Imagery Data to help customers better understand our changing world and make critical decisions faster.
Washington Business Journal
AI satellite mapping startup Impact Observatory raises funding in D.C.
D.C. geospatial mapping company Impact Observatory, which uses artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to power its technology, has raised a nearly $6 million seed round to bring its product to market — and multiply in size.
Esri
Esri Releases Latest Land Cover Map with Improved AI Modeling
2017–2022 High-Resolution Maps in Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World are Now More Temporally Consistent
Axios
The golden age of Earth observation is here
From monitoring deforestation in real time to tracking greenhouse gas emissions and fact-checking claims made during wars, satellite data is providing an unprecedented view of what's happening on the ground each day.
Inside GNSS
More Data in More Hands will Aid in Fighting Climate Change, Speakers Say
In the wake of the latest COP session on international climate change, and as the world continues to deal with the effects of a warming planet, researchers say more and better data can help ameliorate the damage and provide answers on how to respond to it.
The Washington Post
How a booming ‘environmental intelligence’ sector is confronting extreme weather and climate change.
A long-embraced vision of the federal Earth science leadership is that the private sector will create innovative and game-changing products resulting from the nation’s investment in robust and sustained Earth science and observations. Today, that vision is in clear view. It couldn’t come at a more critical time.
The New York Times
"Very Dire": Devastated by Floods, Pakistan Faces Looming Food Crisis
The flooding has crippled Pakistan’s agricultural sector, battering the country as it reels from an economic crisis and double-digit inflation that has sent the price of basics soaring.