Imagery & pipelines at Mapbox, 2014-09-11

From a talk by Charlie Loyd at GeoMeetup SF (http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup/events/201727302/).

Transcript

1. Imagery & pipelines at Mapbox
2. MODIS (today)
3. Landsat 8 (today)
4. VIIRS (supermoon night)
5. Skybox (week before Burning Man)
6. Skybox (week of Burning Man)
7. UrtheCast
8. Planet Labs
9. WorldView-2
10. WorldView-3
11. × 1000s
12. 650 Landsat 8 scenes/day at 2+ GB/scene ! UrtheCast Theia will be on all the time ! 100+ Planet Labs doves in orbit ! A Texas a day from WV-3 ! Etc., etc., etc., etc.
13. It’s too much.
14. Unless you build out an industrial-strength pipeline.
15. We work on the pipeline. The pipeline does the work.
16. The pipeline is a set of modular tools that we know work right together.
17. The pipeline is a set of modular tools that we know work right together. ! For example:
18. De-seaming
19. A future of source-agnostic workflows
20. data in one place, in one frame of reference, and moving on its own first you need
21. data in one place, in one frame of reference, and moving on its own a.k.a. a pipeline
24. Any source, many operations, immediately useful output.
25. The satellite basemap!
34. EarthExplorer
35. Chris! Bruno! Camilla! Amit! Charlie! The satellite team!
36. Questions!