Radiant Earth’s introduces online machine learning course for Earth observation with an African focus
The ML4EO course, which comprises lectures and exercises, is available on Atingi, a digital learning platform.
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Climate TRACE releases first database of global greenhouse gas emissions
The inventory, which spans the years 2015–2020, reveals insights about recent emissions trends across ten sectors and 38 subsectors of the global economy.
Oracle releases Spatial Studio 21.2 with visualisation and geocoding improvements
Spatial Studio 21.2 has been released. Enhancements include hexagonal visualisation, reverse geocoding, creation of custom regions from map layers, coloured map symbol support, and vector tile basemap support.
Esri offers free online course on imagery capabilities
Esri is offering a free six-week online course to explore imagery and remotely sensed data using its ArcGIS software.
Carto introduces spatial extension for Snowflake
The Spatial Extension for Snowflake is distributed as a set of User Defined Functions that extends the capabilities of Snowflake for everything geo.
Spot the Crop Data Challenge focuses on using satellite imagery and machine learning for automating South African crop identification
Radiant Earth Foundation’s Spot the Crop Data Challenge seeks entrants to predict crop types in the Western Cape, South Africa using satellite image time-series.
Radiant Earth partners with Microsoft to accelerate earth observation solutions for local and global sustainability applications
(AI) data, tools, and educational resources to address sustainability challenges.
Digital Earth Africa incorporates analyses ready radar data for the continent
The data is open access and free through the Digital Earth Africa Map and sandbox, and will aid users’ ability to map and monitor water, crops and land cover.
UP42 and GIZ collaboration supports agricultural start-ups in Africa with geospatial technology
UP42 and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are making geospatial technology available to local farming-related start-up businesses under the GIZ Make-IT in Africa project.
AI-powered Malaria elimination solution wins IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition
Zzapp Malaria won the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Challenge for its solution which aids malaria elimination by optimising the timing for launching larvicide operations.