Collaborate on AI + Satellite data for agricultural field boundaries & insights!
My main ‘side gig’ in addition to my ~3.5 days a week at Planet is serving as an ‘industry fellow’ at the Taylor Geospatial Engine. We had some great success with our first initiative, which lead to Fields of The World and fiboa.
I’m incredibly pumped that we’ll be launching ‘phase 2’ of the TGE initiative that lead to And I’d like to invite you to join us! Read the ful post from TGE at https://tgengine.org/tge-innovation-bridge-phase-2/, and my take below.
The first initiative was one of the best collaborations I’ve ever been a part of. We kicked off in St. Louis with ~20 people in person and a number of others participating remotely, representing 17 diverse organizations. And then a core group continued on for about 9 months, shipping an incredible amount of work that will likely be a foundation for many different projects for years to come. And everyone just worked together so well — at the wrap-up we all agreed that a main highlight was working with a group of people where there’s no drama and everyone’s contributing as best they can, towards a common goal that helps the world.
And I believe this iteration is going to be even more fun, as we have an incredible foundation to build on, and we’ll be working towards producing agricultural field boundaries using AI and satellite imagery for users who will really benefit. It should lead to some major strides towards a vision of a sustainable, global field boundary dataset that’s an open, digital public good.
We’ll be focusing on sustainable agricultural practices, reporting on deforestation regulations and food security, but we welcome anyone who is interested in high quality global field boundaries.
Read the post for more information, and feel free to ask me any questions. We’ll be doing most all collaborations online, and are looking for individuals who want to build with us, and organizations to serve as ‘stakeholders’ to participate and give feedback.
All our events start with an in-person kickoff and sprint, and we’d love for you to join us in St. Louis (March 17–20). We may even have budget for a small number of travel grants. But even if you can’t make it in person do sign up https://forms.gle/Mf6qtk7KYxb6t1h6A and we’ll keep you in the loop. And you can also use that same for to express organizational interest in being a stakeholder.
And please spread this post to anyone working on anything related to field boundaries or agricultural insights. We firmly believe the best products come from bringing together a number of diverse perspectives and then aims for a simple, extensible solution that all can adapt. So we’d love to have you there and working with us.
