Why do CIAnigs want to keep track of our garbage?
"It’s no surprise that Amazon and the CIA are interested in your data, but the new information they’re looking to collect may seem a bit off-brand.
DigitalGlobe, alongside chipmaker Nvidia, is partnering with Amazon and the venture arm of the CIA to map out the constantly evolving parts of urban landscapes — including trash heaps.
Using SpaceNet,
an algorithm based on the same technology that fuels the facial-recognition software used by companies like Facebook,
DigitalGlobe will eventually map high-resolution images of up to half a million square miles of the Earth’s surface.
There’s one big difference, though: Instead of collecting information about buildings, like Google Maps,
SpaceNet will train its A.I. to algorithmically collect precise data on objects such as waste and commercial traffic.
sauce:
www.inverse.com/article/20197-amazon-cia-spacenet-artificial-intelligence-mapping
also:
Super-Resolution on Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning
using:
CosmiQNet
(ironical?)
CosmiQNet is a deep neural network that we have developed to perform several different tasks from building detection to 3-band super-resolution.
sauce:
https://
medium.com/the-downlinq/super-resolution-on-satellite-imagery-using-deep-learning-part-2-c9ce41dc0ee0
The upshot:
Amazon funding developent of uber satellite mapping tech.