Queryable Earth: combining satellite imagery and next-generation AI
Back in 2018, Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall asked the audience during his TED talk: what if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet?
The tech is now here to actually try that.
In collaboration with the Microsoft AI for Good Lab, we built this proof-of-concept project affectionately known as “Queryable California.” This won’t be in your internet browser tomorrow – but it shows the art of the possible.
The idea with Queryable California is to evaluate how Microsoft’s next-gen AI can make Planet’s satellite data more accessible by both indexing physical characteristics of life on Earth and making them searchable, in plain and easy-to-understand language, with real-world context about location and time. All in hopes of empowering people with data and insights - following a few strokes on a keyboard - that can guide better decision-making.
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