🌍 AI in Africa - Radiant Earth (Practical AI #162)

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In the second of the “AI in Africa” spotlight episodes, we welcome guests from Radiant Earth to talk about machine learning for earth observation. They give us a glimpse into their amazing data and tooling for working with satellite imagery, and they talk about use cases including crop identification and tropical storm wind speed estimation.

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Featuring:

• Hamed Alemohammad – Twitter
• Abba Barde – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Joyce Nabende – Twitter

Show Notes:

• Radiant Earth
• ML for Earth Observation online course
• “Spot the crop” challenge
• Open for Good Alliance

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!