Cows going global – reflections on a year mapping manure around the world
Of late, I have been appreciating how big the world is. We have been slicing its land surface into squares, hundreds of millions of them, and inquiring into each as to whether it boasts any notable concentration of cows. We’ve hit on a few surprises.
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How we judge Earth Observation foundation model quality, part 1: Intuition building
There are now several AI “foundation models” for Earth Observation (EO) data.
How AI can decode the Earth’s “Genome”
Imagine if we had access to a true “genome” for the Earth, an actionable blueprint that distilled the tsunami of data we collect about the planet.
Finding a Vector Database to Search the Earth
With the vector search landscape changing daily, identifying a vector database to be the backbone for earth observation similarity search at a reasonable cost has proven to be a challenge.
Growing Food in Pixels
The Plotline, Earth Genome’s food and climate project, recently published an interactive map visualizing crops that grow across the United States at 10 by 10 meter resolution.
How to build tomorrow’s AI for the Earth
Today’s AI is not sufficient for today’s environmental challenges.
A Tool To Save California’s Farming Future
We’ve recently published a map based story on this past winter in California and a tool that’s helping farmers capitalize on the influx of water to recharge aquifers and store water for future dry seasons.
ChatGeoPT: Exploring the future of talking to our maps
In this blog post we walk through some of our initial explorations using AI interfaces to solve geospatial problems.
Let’s make more dot grid maps
I am excited about dot grid maps. And I’m surprised that we don’t see more of them. Dot grids are a clear, informative, multidimensional and flexible cartographic technique.
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Animating the carbon stored in every tree on the planet
In the intense run up to COP27 we were asked to produce an animated video of the carbon stored in every tree on the planet for the incredible CTrees.
