Radiant Earth Foundation

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Radiant Earth Foundation is an American non-profit organization founded in 2016. [1] [2] Its goal is to apply machine learning for Earth observation [3] to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. [4] The foundation works on developing openly licensed Earth observation machine learning libraries, training data sets [5] and models through an open source hub [6] that support missions worldwide [7] like agriculture, [8] conservation, and climate change. [9] Radiant Earth also works on a community of practice that develop standards, templates and APIs [6] around machine learning for Earth observation. According to scholar David Lindgren, the foundation "serves to make satellite imagery widely accessible and usable for development practitioners". [10]

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The Foundation is funded by Schmidt Futures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, [1] McGovern Foundation and the Omidyar network [9]

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  1. 1 2 Totaro, Paola (3 March 2017). "Daten für alle – Gates startet Satelliten-Projekt". Reuters Weltnachrichten. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "Radiant Earth Annual Report 2019" (PDF). 2020.
  3. ↑ Demyanov, Vladislav (2020). Satellites Missions and Technologies for Geosciences. IntechOpen. p. 117. ISBN   978-1-78985-995-9.
  4. ↑ "Radiant Earth Foundation". www.data4sdgs.org. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  5. ↑ Nachmany, Yoni (14 November 2018). "Generating a Training Dataset for Land Cover Classification to Advance Global Development". arXiv: 1811.07998 [cs.CV].
  6. 1 2 Zenke da Cruz, Camila Lauria (2019). "Radiant Earth Platform: POTENCIALIDADES E LIMITAÇÕES DE ABORDAGEM DE PROCESSAMENTO DIGITAL DE IMAGEM NA NUVEM" (PDF). Anais do XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto. ISBN   978-85-17-00097-3.
  7. ↑ "Radiant Earth Foundation Releases First Earth Imagery Platform for Global Development – Tanzania News Gazette" . Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  8. ↑ Ballantynwe, A. (2019). "Benchmark Agricultural Training Datasets to Create Regional Crop Type Classification Models from Earth Observations". American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, Abstract #GC23H-1439. 2019: GC23H–1439. Bibcode:2019AGUFMGC23H1439B.
  9. 1 2 "About – Radiant Earth Foundation" . Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  10. ↑ Lindgren, David (2020), Froehlich, Annette (ed.), "Satellites and Their Potential Role in Supporting the African Union's Continental Early Warning System", Space Fostering African Societies: Developing the African Continent through Space, Part 1, Southern Space Studies, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 195–205, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32930-3_13, ISBN   978-3-030-32930-3, S2CID   213700549 , retrieved 2020-10-26


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