ARSET offers satellite remote sensing training that builds the capacity of organizations to use NASA Earth science data in their decision-making.

• Learn about civic tech
• Mapping
• Courses

Global energy sector methane emissions estimated by using facility-level satellite observations

• Emerging tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Environmental data

FireGuard uses military satellites with the National Interagency Fire Center, U.S. Forest Service and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Firefly capability to detect wildfires, notify authorities, and create products to disseminate to firefighting networks nationwide.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

MethaneMapper is an open-source, AI-powered hyperspectral imaging tool to detect methane emissions and trace them to their sources.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Environmental data

Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of gold mining activities in the Amazonian countries.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Machine learning

UP42 transforms how organizations order, access, and analyze Earth observation data.

• commercial

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping platforms

Article in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke

• No poverty

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research

We use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and artificial intelligence to deliver a detailed look at global emissions that gets even better over time.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Satellites

Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones

• hurricanes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Satellites

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

• fires

• Hardware
• Emerging Tech Report Projects
• Satellites

Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.

• city
• heat
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Rapid integrates advanced mapping tools, authoritative geospatial open data, and cutting-edge technology to empower OpenStreetMap mappers at all levels to get started quickly, making accurate and fresh edits to maps.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Clay is a nonprofit team on a mission to make Earth observation as useful and ubiquitous as a Google search. We believe in using open, responsible AI to make Earth observation a force for positive change.

• mining
• forests
• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Environmental data

Increasing shared understanding of our world through community-led initiatives that make data easier to access and use.

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Environmental data

We leverage remote sensing technology to detect, pinpoint, and quantify methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the scale of individual facilities.

• Climate action
• methane
• Responsible consumption and production

• Satellites
• Carbon calculators

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Civic features
• Environmental data

A writeup of the partnership

• Clean water and sanitation

• Emerging tech
• Data science for social good
• Satellites

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

A better and faster way to track methane

• Climate action
• methane

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:

• Govtech
• Connectivity
• Govtech vendors

In partnership with Google and Propel, GiveDirectly is automating cash aid to Propel users living in areas deemed damaged by satellite imagery

• hurricanes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

The European Union Earth Observation Programme

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Satellites

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Satellites