It’s Always Sunny at Orbital Insight: Our Work with SAR Imagery

AI + Humans: How Artificial Intelligence scales Human Expertise for Detecting Changes to the Earth

Tracking the Coronavirus — Part One: Chinese Energy Trends

Understanding the Extent of Flooding in Houston from Hurricane Harvey

Measuring Poverty from Space

How do we track economic progress and identify pockets of poverty? Often, the only way is to ask.

How Big Data Identified Where the Next Lowe’s Should Go

Data in Focus: A New Way of Looking at Water

As the world’s population approaches 10 billion people and chronic droughts and water shortages proliferate, water has become our most critical and contested resource. Although technological advances have helped alleviate the threat of shortages in oil…

Leveraging Commercial Applications to Help the World Bank Map Poverty

Census and household survey data are often combined by economists to generate local estimates of poverty and economic activity, in order to target aid to those who need it the most. But the process of manually…

Bringing Transparency to Oil Supply in Closed Economies