Of interest via the Digitalglobe blog…
Computer vision algorithms applied to high resolution imagery convert pixels into meaningful insights.
At the Mobile World Congress today, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced the Telecom Infra Project, an initiative to develop new technologies and approaches for connecting the 4.2 billion people that still remain offline. To enable this, the Facebook Connectivity Lab is leveraging DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data initiative to determine population densities across vast rural areas in 20 developing nations. If you are going to connect the world, you need to first know where in the world humans live!
Check out Facebook’s white paper, “Connecting the World with Better Maps: Data-Assisted Population Distribution Mapping.”
With accurate content of our planet that is being updated daily and our GBDX platform, we are putting data and our platform at this technological intersection. We can’t do it alone, though. All of you developers, startups, and enterprises are invited to join our GBDX Beta – we can’t wait to see what you will do!
To learn more about GBDX, visit: developer.digitalglobe.com/gbdx/