Computer Vision in Space

Addressing some of humanity’s most pressing challenges, such as providing food or distributing energy for nine billion people without depleting resources, requires measuring, assessing and understanding the impact of the different solutions we have at hand. We need a sort of Fitbit for the planet to assess and improve its health. Low-cost satellites are a novel, cost-effective and non-intrusive way to capture real-time planet-scale data. This data, coupled with the most recent advances in artificial intelligence, can provide actionable information for companies and governments. This new data sources also raise new research challenges, with huge potential social impact. In this talk we will show through concrete examples how we are already solving problems on the Earth by sending AI to space.