IQT Content Roundup — Week of 2/8/21
A weekly snapshot of new content coming out of IQT. All original content may be found at www.iqt.org.
SpaceNet 7 Results: A Closer Look at the SpaceNet Change and Object Tracking (SCOT) Metric
We’ve shared several posts detailing the results from the SpaceNet 7 Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge where participants were asked to track building construction over time, thereby directly assessing urbanization. The latest blog analyzes the results of SpaceNet 7 to explore how the SpaceNet Change and Object Tracking (SCOT) metric acts with real-world data. Do the different parts of the metric really measure what they claim to measure? Spoiler alert — they do! Read more.
The Innovation Wars
In the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, IQT’s Chris Darby and Sarah Sewall explain the role that commercial technologies play in great power competition and call for adapting U.S. innovation policy to more comprehensively sustain American power and national security. China’s technology strategy demands that the United States think and act differently to advance innovation as a source of national and international power. Read more.
