Archive - The Spatial Edge

🌐 How exposed are we to toxic metal pollution?

PLUS: using geospatial data to select power plant locations, new open-source geospatial tools from Microsoft, and more.

Apr 30 •

🌐 Identifying the global economic elite

PLUS: Using fiber optic cables to measure seismic activity, a new tool from IBM to finetune geospatial foundation models and more.

Apr 21 •

🌐 Is Bitcoin impacting our health?

PLUS: WorldPop extends its data to 2030, mapping pesticide exposure, and more.

Apr 16 •

🌐 A new (free) tool for mapping war destruction

PLUS: How accurate are population datasets, foundation models for generating 3D images and more.

Apr 9 •

🌐 Estimating granular GDP using several big data sources

PLUS: How Google's improving vision-language models for remote sensing and more.

Apr 2 •

March 2025

🌐 So how accurate is geospatial climate data really?

PLUS: AI traffic lights can reduce emissions, identifying building damage from satellites, and more.

Mar 26 •

🌐 Some surprising facts about ImageNet and geospatial models

PLUS: predicting wildfires using deep learning, estimating emissions from road intersections and more.

Mar 19 •

🌐 New methods to track CO₂ at granular levels

PLUS: ESA's new open-source Sentinel-2 super-resolution model, quickly detecting landslides from satellite images, and more.

Mar 5 •

February 2025

🌐 How global warming is impacting water gaps

PLUS: the link between population growth and flooding, satellite object detection with RS-YOLO, and more.

Feb 26 •

🌐 A new geospatial GDP dataset (that doesn't involve nightlights)

PLUS: some surprising vulnerabilities when using pre-trained models, examining travel patterns in Africa and more.

Feb 19 •

🌐 Using ChatGPT to predict poverty from satellites

PLUS: downscaling temperature data, and examining the best locations for wind and solar energy.

Feb 12 •

🌐 We have a new health worry — Ozone

PLUS: How Meta is improving vision transformers, handling uncertainty in mapping, and more.

Feb 5 •

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