all sensors point to a remote sensing rennaissance
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All Sensors Point to a Remote Sensing
RenaissanceMatt Ball
Founder and Editorial Director, V1 Media
Remote Sensing Renaissance
• Enduring legacy of the Digital Earth vision
• Platforms - Earth observation satellites, UAS
• Sensor Innovations - LiDAR, multispectral, thermal
• Making Sense - fusion, analysis, insight
• Natural resource applications
• Maps, Apps, Experiences
Renaissance: A revival of intellectual achievement and vigor.
Deep Space Climate Observatory Launched Feb. 11, 2015
The Enduring Vision of a Digital EarthSpeech by Al Gore, Jan. 31, 1998
Landsat 7
1990s-era VR
– Al Gore
“The hard part of taking advantage of this flood of geospatial information
will be making sense of it.”
Baseline What is our knowledge?
Inquiry What are our questions?
Impacts Monitoring change
Stewardship Management practices
Response Adaptation/Resilience
Sustainability Holistic Understanding
Staying Curious
Monitoring Platforms
Satellite Explosion
Silicon Valley StartupsAccessible and Useful
Skybox Imaging
Planet Labs
UrtheCast (Canada)
OmniEarth
Hera Systems
High Altitude Pseudo-SatellitePersistant Surveillance (Wide-Area Motion Imagery)
UAS Prove Power of the PossibleFlexible, Automated, Capable
Sensor InnovationsNile River at night, Astronaut Scott Kelly
Single Photon LiDAR
Smaller/Cheaper
• DARPA program for an ultra-compact LiDAR system
• RIEGL RiCopter
• Quanergy developed first solid-state LiDAR for autonomous vehicles
MultispectralParrot Sequoia Multispectral Sensor
and Sunshine Sensor
Thermal
Search and rescue
Wildlife
Water Flow
Making Sense
Airborne Sensor Hubs Onboard Processing
Open, Open, OpenOpen Data, Open Source, Open Origin
Better BaselinesNational Science Foundation’s
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Increasing Insights
• Cloud computing capacity • Pattern recognition and
machine learning • Online platforms focused
on predictive analytics • High-frequency change
detection • Earth Engine
Applications• Forest inventory • Snowpack assessment • Watershed management • Coastal zone management • Invasive species • Biodiversity • Ecosystem services
Carnegie ObservatoryGreg Asner, Ecology from Air, Ted Talk
“a very high-tech accounting system”
Snowpack Assessment
NRCS, National Water and Climate Center
ASO Airborne Snow Observatory operated by JPL
Chesapeake Bay
• 1-meter imagery and LiDAR for the entire Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• Land cover analysis
• Stormwater management
• Precision conservation
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
Invasive Species
Biodiversity
Photo: Martin Le-May
Ecosystem Services
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