In March, we concluded the SpaceNet Road Detection and Routing Challenge hosted by CosmiQ Works, Radiant Solution and NVIDIA. Accurate road networks are an important map feature that is required for everything from logistics planning to turn-by-turn directions. Currently, road networks are traced by hand from overhead imagery or created…

Note: SpaceNet is a collaborative effort between CosmiQ Works, Radiant Solutions and NVIDIA. For more information see the SpaceNet Road Detection and Routing Challenge Announcement. Millions of kilometers of the worlds’ roadways remain unmapped. In fact, there are large organizations such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Missing Maps Project whose…

In June, we concluded the second SpaceNet competition, a satellite imagery object detection competition hosted by CosmiQ Works, DigitalGlobe, and NVIDIA. This competition challenged contestants to submit algorithms that automatically detect building footprints in satellite images, continuing the challenge originally posed in the first SpaceNet competition. As explained in a…