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Location Intelligence from Imagery
1. Location Intelligence From Imagery
Geospatial Intelligence for Local & Hyperlocal Spaces
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Ujaval Gandhi
Founder, Spatial Thoughts
ujaval@spatialthoughts.com
2. Types of Geospatial Imagery
Satellite Imagery
High resolution imagery
from satellite
constellations allow
continuous monitoring of
large areas
Drone Imagery
UAV Platforms allow
cost effective and on-
demand data capture for
local information
Street-level Imagery
Smartphones,
Dashcams, 360°
cameras take geotagged
panoramas for capturing
hyperlocal data
3. Deriving Intelligence From Imagery
Feature Extraction
Detect and extract
features such as cars,
roads, buildings,
infrastructure assets
Change Detection
Determine temporal
change to urban
environment and
infrastructure projects
Monitoring
Regular monitoring of
assets and generating
insights
4. Demo: Feature Extraction
Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search
A 50-layer ResNet built with Keras
and pre-trained on ImageNet, fine-
tuned to classify into approximately
100 OpenStreetMap (OSM) classes,
like parking lots or golf courses
https://medium.com/descarteslabs-team/geovisual-search-using-computer-vision-to-explore-the-earth-275d970c60cf
6. OpenStreetMap
A case study on mapping in the
modern age with imagery
intelligence
‘Wikipedia’ for map data
A free and open editable map for
the whole world.
Created by volunteer mappers
assisted by machine-generated
data.
A Living Map: 5 million
changes/day
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/About_OpenStreetMap https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=changesets
7. Building Footprints by Microsoft
Microsoft trained a DNN to extract
building geometry and ran it on high
resolution imagery from Bing Maps.
Open Dataset of 125M building
footprints in the US, 12M in Canada
and 18M in Uganda/Tanzania
Much of it has been imported to
OpenStreetMap
Image Courtesy: Microsoft
https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
8. Maps with AI by Facebook
Facebook has built a service to generate
road geometries from Maxar’s high
resolution imagery.
Used deep learning and weakly
supervised training techniques. Key
insight was to generate noisy, imperfect
training data that allowed for differences
between roads across the globe.
Human mappers review, fix validation
checks and add those to OpenStreetMap
Image Courtesy: Facebook
DeepGlobe model
draws non-existent roads
Global OSM Model
performs well
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/mapping-roads-through-deep-learning-and-weakly-supervised-training/
9. Street Level Imagery by Mapillary
Provides tools to capture street level
imagery.
Vision based algorithms for
● Traffic sign recognition
● Semantic segmentation
Integrates with OpenStreetMap to
assist mappers with global imagery
coverage
Image Courtesy: Mapillary
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapillary
10. Questions?
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