31 08, 2018

Monitoring Major Events with Global Earth Observation and Geospatial Big Data Analytics: 10+ New Examples

2020-10-03T00:49:18+10:00August 31st, 2018|Asia, Australia, Bushfire, Earth Observation, Emergency, Image Analysis, Major Events, News Media, Risk, Sentinel-2, USA, Wildfire|

31 August 2018 This blog summarises some of our latest activities of monitoring, modelling and mapping major hazardous events with Earth observation and geospatial big data analytics, the two methods that are increasingly important and indispensable for a wide range of environmental studies. We routinely apply our own advanced image analysis software (Spectral Discovery) [...]

8 06, 2018

Introducing Location Profile APIs for Property Location and Hazard Risk Intelligence

2020-10-03T00:49:23+10:00June 8th, 2018|APIs, Asia, Asset Management, Australia, Exposure, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Real Estate, Risk, USA|

8 June 2018 The public release of BigData Earth's Location Profile APIs is a milestone in our vision of achieving API-first, cloud-based big data analytics and innovative solutions. [Update 31 August 2018: APIs Version 2.0 out of beta] The set of APIs released now reflects our substantial R&D in the following major applications over [...]

8 12, 2017

A Survey and Clarification of DEM Vertical Accuracy

2021-01-10T13:31:47+11:00December 8th, 2017|Earth Observation, Elevation, Flood, Location Intelligence, Risk, USA|

8 December 2017 For flood hazard modelling and risk analysis, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is indispensable. Probably the most important metric about DEM quality is its vertical accuracy. Unfortunately, it is often confusing in literature and among various data offerings, and there are serious implications for applications, e.g. whether flood hazard rating can be confidently quantified [...]

21 11, 2017

Introducing Three New Tools for Investigating Flood-prone Areas in the U.S. and Australia

2020-10-03T00:49:23+10:00November 21st, 2017|Australia, Elevation, Flood, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, USA|

21 November 2017 Flood mapping for large areas (e.g. from catchments to a national level) is relatively new and challenging; associating mapped flood-prone areas with an annual chance of occurrence (in probabilities, say 1%) of a flood event involves many kinds of uncertainties and is even harder. Flood maps that suggest various hazard levels over [...]

16 10, 2017

Some Imagery Sources for the Northern California Wildfires in October 2017

2020-10-03T00:49:25+10:00October 16th, 2017|Earth Observation, Location Intelligence, Major Events, News Media, USA, Wildfire|

16 October 2017 The catastrophic wildfires in Northern California started a week ago have claimed at least 40 lives and destroyed nearly 6,000 buildings (news report). The fires continuously burning over the past week and the extensive damage have been observed by low-, medium- and high-resolution satellite imagery. Here we summarise and analyse a few useful imagery sources. [...]

28 08, 2017

News Release: BigData Earth Offers Cloud-based Rapid LOCATION Analytics For The News Media Worldwide

2021-01-13T13:13:00+11:00August 28th, 2017|Asia, Australia, Earth Observation, Location Intelligence, Major Events, News Media, Risk, USA|

Location information is critical for news reporting, especially in the event of emergencies, natural disasters, industrial pollution, etc. Relevant location information and insights can not only make the news story more detailed and interesting, but also help readers understand each event and its context more quickly. BigData Earth has been developing unique location [...]

5 12, 2016

BigData Earth Develops New Location Profile Report for Worldwide Agricultural Land

2021-02-04T11:37:39+11:00December 5th, 2016|Agriculture, Asia, Asset Management, Australia, Climate Change, Cloud Computing, Earth Observation, Flood, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Location Intelligence, Property Information, USA|

Modern Earth observation technologies (spaceborne, airborne and terrestrial) are increasingly deployed to capture environmental attributes about agricultural land and assets. Geospatial big data collected by various sensors and the information extracted are critical for the growing AgTech and digital agriculture business. Many baseline terrain and environmental metrics for agricultural land should be systematically [...]

3 11, 2016

BigData Earth Develops New-generation Property Location Information for Addresses in the U.S. and Australia

2020-10-03T00:49:54+10:00November 3rd, 2016|Asset Management, Australia, Climate Change, Earth Observation, Elevation, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Real Estate, Risk, USA|

3 November 2016 For industries such as asset management, real estate and insurance underwriting, the location information of assets (e.g. buildings, infrastructure facilities, and agricultural land) is among the most important. Through deep research and development, BigData Earth creates new-generation property location metrics and insights by integrating various thematic layers (including terrain, land cover, climate change, natural [...]

23 08, 2016

BigData Earth Releases Geocoding DoubleCheck – A Unique Location Accuracy Assessment Tool for the U.S. Parcel-level Geocoding

2020-10-03T00:49:56+10:00August 23rd, 2016|Geocoding, Image Analysis, Land parcel, Property Information, USA|

23 August 2016: Geocoding location accuracy is fundamental to the exploration of location-centric business intelligence and important for applications such as asset management and risk analysis. Currently very few assessment tools on this exist. Without the confidence on the location accuracy, subsequent analytics and results would be seriously compromised. BigData Earth is pleased to release a new product called Geocoding [...]

25 06, 2016

Mapping the June 2016 Sherpa Fire in Santa Barbara County, California, with Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery

2020-10-03T00:49:58+10:00June 25th, 2016|Earth Observation, Image Analysis, Major Events, Sentinel-2, USA, Wildfire|

Major Event: Sherpa Fire started on June 15, 2016 (from InciWeb) Mapping Fire Scars (Burnt Areas) using the Latest Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery Imagery Source: Public Sentinel-2 Imagery on Amazon Web Services S3 - data download link Imagery Provider: EU Earth Observation Programme - Copernicus Imagery Acquisition Date: 2016-06-21 Swath Width: 290 km Multispectral [...]

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