Fast Company: “In a new global map based on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite data from 2017-2021, the mapping company Esri has created a detailed rendering of the current state of the planet that anyone can explore. In the past, land use mapping has been slow, because it’s done pixel-by-pixel and requires a long process of review…Esri and Impact Observatory used artificial intelligence and machine learning to quickly crunch through the satellite data, which has 26 pictures of every point on the planet throughout the year. (Microsoft donated the use of its servers to run the program.) Data that might have taken months or a year to process in the past can now be processed in around a week…”

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