SpaceNet is a collaborative initiative focused on accelerating open-source machine learning for geospatial applications. It provides a repository of satellite imagery with co-registered labels and algorithms, hosting innovation challenges to improve geospatial analysis. Key partners include Maxar, AWS, IEEE-GRSS, and others, with a focus on applications like disaster response and infrastructure mapping. Associated keywords: geospatial analysis, machine learning, satellite imagery, disaster response, open source.
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Spacenet is an initiative of NATO’s Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG).
Fourteen Spanish companies are members of NATO’s Spacenet industrial consultation group.
NATO launched Spacenet, an industrial consultation group that includes more than 300 companies.
Over four years, SpaceNet has received 3,000 submissions to its data-science challenges from people in 34 countries.
For its sixth challenge, SpaceNet created an open-source dataset that combined Capella Space synthetic aperture radar imagery with Maxar WorldView-2 electro-optical imagery and asked competitors to automatically identify building footprints.
Planet is supplying monthly imagery over a period of two years for more than 100 locations covering 40,000 square kilometers on six continents for the SpaceNet 7 challenge.
Capella Space has collected aerial SAR data produced according to its product specifications to create a high-resolution, hourly dataset for contribution to SpaceNet challenges ahead of Sequoia routine operations.
SpaceNet was established in 2016 by CosmiQ Works, the In-Q-Tel organization focused on commercial space, and DigitalGlobe.
CosmiQ Works makes the winning algorithms from SpaceNet competitions open source.
CosmiQ Works and its partners hold competitions under the SpaceNet initiative that offer cash prizes for developing automated methods to detect road networks and other landmarks from high-resolution satellite imagery.
SpaceNet includes over 5,700 square kilometers of DigitalGlobe imagery hosted on Amazon Web Services.
SpaceNet was launched in 2016 as the first public release of multi-spectral satellite imagery at 50-centimeter resolution.