Machine Learning Meets Geospatial Big Data - DigitalGlobe Developers

James Crawford, Founder and CEO of Orbital Insight, has been interested in space for a long time. When he worked as robotics and artificial intelligence expert for NASA, Crawford pioneered AI support for spacecraft and observation satellites. Now, he has turned his attention to planet Earth, using machine learning to extract intelligence from Geospatial Big Data (GBD). Crawford often describes Orbital Insight as a macroscope: a tool that can identify individual objects on the Earth's surface, but then be able to scale that up to cover vast geographical areas. Using cloud computing and graphical processing units, Orbital Insight can see the forest and the trees.