Topic
satellite
- Yukon River Delta
The Yukon River delta , Alaska.
- Aladaghlar
The Aladaghlar Mountains of northwest Iran.
- The Challenge of High-Capital Startups
Geospatial analytics company Descartes Labs recently sold to private equity, in what former CEO Mark Johnson calls a "fire sale." This post is his perspective on the nature of the business over time, their missteps al…
- Bull Cases for Starlink
Byrne Hobart makes the case for Starlink's business model: The line between a vision and a sales pitch is always blurry, and Elon Musk is unusually good at using this to his advantage. There's a reasonable case that S…
- satellitemap.space
SpaceX's Starlink constellation is getting pretty dense. So far they've put over 1,000 in orbit, with a goal of eventually reaching tens of thousands. Someone put together this map visualization showing the orbit posi…
- BuzzFeed's Analysis of Xinjiang Camps
This is a wild story and an incredible piece of investigative journalism from the folks at BuzzFeed. The CCP reportedly operates hundreds of camps across the Xinjiang autonomous region for re-education of Uyghur musli…
- Weekend Reading: Honeycode, Imagery for Utilities, and BigQuery in Google Sheets
🍯 Amazon Honeycode AWS is making its entrance into the low-code app platform space. 🌲 Using satellite imagery to prioritize vegetation management for utilities Geoff Zeiss on combining satellite imagery and spatial…
- Places: Remnants of an Ancient Lake
Lake Chad spans 4 national borders in the central Sahel: Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon. Since the 1960s it's shrunk to about 5% its ancestral size, due to overuse, mismanagement, and climate shifts. This NASA pho…
- Weekend Reading: The Anti Portfolio, Downlink 2, and nucoll
📂 The Anti-Portfolio Bessemer maintains this page of companies they passed investing on. I like the idea of publicly acknowledging your big misses or errors as an organizational accountability tool. Some big names he…
- Starlink is a Very Big Deal
An interesting detailed analysis on SpaceX’s Starlink project, which intends to put tens of thousands of microsatellites in orbit to provide a blanket of global internet connectivity. Starlink’s world-spanning interne…
- The Greening of the Earth
In the category of good news, this study from NASA using MODIS satellite data shows trends of re-greening happening in countries like India and China. Surprising given the media attention on overexploitation of land:…
- Weekend Reading: Blot, Hand-Drawn Visualizations, and Megafire Detection
📝 Blot.im Blot is a super-minimal open source blogging system based on plain text files in a folder. It supports markdown, Word docs, images, and HTML — just drag the files into the folder and it generates web pages.…
- Weekend Reading: Ancient Text, StarLink, and Chinese Origins
📜 Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy A project from DeepMind designed to fill in missing text from ancient inscriptions: Pythia takes a sequence of damaged text as input, and…
- 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: Satellites, Antilibraries, and Libra
🛰 How to Profit in Space: A Visual Guide Fantastic visualizations from the WSJ team. Shows the history of satellite expansion divided by country, year, and orbits, both LEO and geosynchronous. A great use of maps for…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Weekend Reading: Forecasting, Raster CV, Free University Courses
🔮 Forecasting at Uber The scale of the prediction problem Uber has is wild. This is an intro to a series on methods they use for forecasting demand for their marketplace. 🛰 raster-vision A neat project from the Azav…
- 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…