Topic
imagery
- Weekend Reading: Commercial Imagery, Proof Mechanisms, and Cinematic Universes
🌏 The Commercial Satellite Imagery Business Model is Broken My friend Joe Morrison's latest is an extended rant on the commercial satellite imagery market, and a plea to that industry to rethink how they might improv…
- Imaging the Earth, Every Day
Most people don't know how earth imaging satellites work. All they know is a camera is flying overhead snapping photos. This visualization gives you an animated picture of how Planet's satellite constellation can cove…
- Weekend Reading: Real Time Analytics, Georeferencing, and Fulcrum Code
📉 Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics I thought this was a great post on how unnecessary "real-time" analytics can be when misused. As the author points out, it's almost never necessary t…
- Weekend Reading: Product Market Fit, Stripe's 5th Hub, and Downlink
🦸🏽‍♂️ How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit As pointed out in this piece from Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman, most indicators around product-market fit are lagging indicators. With his compan…
- OpenAerialMap: Open Drone Imagery for Humanitarians
I wrote up a post for the Fulcrum blog on using OpenAerialMap with Fulcrum Community. As we invest more in building out our Community platform this year, I'm excited to do more with integrating OAM into our tools. For…
- Weekend Reading: CES 2019, Tips for Satellite Imagery, and Shortcuts Archive
📱 CES 2019: A Show Report This year’s excellent report from the show floor from Steven Sinofsky. It's extensive and covers the products a-to-z, breaking down the trends by category. I'd also recommend the companion p…
- Weekend Reading: RoboSat, the State of Security, and the Equal Earth Map
🛰 Buildings from Imagery with RoboSat This excellent guide shows how to combine take imagery from OpenAerialMap and buildings from OpenStreetMap, and combine to train a model for automated feature extraction. It uses…
- Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM
🎓 Mastery Learning and Creative Tasks Khan Academy’s Andy Matuschak on tasks that require “depth of knowledge” versus those that have higher “transfer demand.” Both can be considered “difficult” in a sense, but teach…
- Earth's Wonders Like You've Never Seen Them
The team from Planet, maker of microsatellites for remote sensing, shared this set of images taken by their SkySat constellation. As this technology advances, it's going be a phenomenal resource to make high-accuracy…
- OpenDroneMap
Since I got the Mavic last year, I haven’t had many opportunities to do mapping with it. I’ve put together a few experimental flights to play with DroneDeploy and our Fulcrum extension, but outside of that I’ve mostly…
- Weekly Links: LiDAR, WannaCry, and OSM Imagery
🗺 LiDAR Data for DC Available as an AWS Public Dataset >LiDAR point cloud data for Washington, DC, is available for anyone to use on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This dataset, managed by the District of…
- Aerial imagery with the Mavic
At work we've been building an integration between Fulcrum and DroneDeploy, a service for automating drone flight and data capture for aerial imagery. It's compatible with the Mavic, so I gave it a shot with some test…