Earth Index is a end user focused application that preprocesses global imagery through AI foundation models to enable rapid in-browser search and monitoring. Earth Genome builds Earth Index for critical applications in the environment, and is being used today to report on illegal airstrips built in the Peruvian Amazon, track cattle factory farms across the planet for emissions modeling, and expose illegal gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory
About the Speaker
Mikel Maron works on open technology for the earth. He leads product development and sets organizational pace at Earth Genome. Previously, Mikel led corporate social responsibility at Mapbox, elevated open mapping in the federal government as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, and founded community mapping initiatives notably Map Kibera through Ground Truth Initiative. He has a long association with the OpenStreetMap project, founding Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in 2005 and serving many years on the OSM Foundation Board.
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