@Scale 2018: Artificial intelligence at Orbital Insight

Orbital Insight is a geospatial big data company leveraging the rapidly growing availability of satellite, UAV, and other geospatial data sources to understand and characterize socio-economic trends at global, regional, and hyperlocal scales. In this talk, Adam Kraft, Computer Vision Machine Learning Lead at Orbital Insight, discusses the satellite imagery domain, how it’s evolving, and the various advantages and challenges of working with such imagery. He shares several example applications, demonstrating how machine learning is disrupting this space.