Welcome to GeoAI Unpacked!
🔍 Insights and deep dives for Geospatial AI
GeoAI Unpacked is a newsletter aimed at sharing deep dives, insights, and industry updates for geospatial AI applications. I’ve been in touch with many entrepreneurs, founders, and investors in the geospatial and climate-tech sector, and I’ve been closely monitoring the geospatial industry for 3+ years in my other newsletter, Geospatial Jobs. I’m curious about the emerging business opportunities in the geospatial sector and I hope sharing this newsletter will help me get feedback from the readers, learn more, and connect with talented individuals. Despite the incredible advancements in AI, the industry is also filled with a fair share of noise and misleading claims. This newsletter is my effort to build a community, discover what’s real/useful, and assess the emerging trends.
I aim to focus on a single topic in each issue, exploring it from both a technological and business perspective. I’ve been thinking about a few topics for upcoming issues, and here’s a tentative list (subject to change):
🛰️ EO-Foundation models
Evolution of AI for Earth Observation, what’s different about foundation models?, practical examples, challenges
🌧️ AI-based weather forecasting
Approaches, advantages, startups and big tech players, limitations
🌽 GeoAI for agriculture
Applications and what’s possible with GeoAI, opportunities
☔️ GeoAI for insurance
Current challenges of property insurance, GeoAI opportunities, GeoAI limitations specific to the insurance market
👨💻 GeoAI and data ETL challenges
What’s special about GeoAI and what’s needed in the data stack?
📊 Explainability (and trust) challenges for GeoAI adoption
Challenges of “black-box” models & spatially inconsistent predictions
Multi-modal AI for Earth Observation
AI models using spatial data + text descriptions + socioeconomic info
The (unfortunately) broken business of geo platforms
Challenges with EO compute platforms
Emerging Data-as-a-Service providers in weather forecasting industry
Startups using satellite, radar, buoy, or balloons to collect weather observations
AI and climate change
Lots of noise & bold claims, everyone’s saving the planet, cool tech vs. useful stuff, recent promising advances, big tech and climate modeling
In addition to the above, I’m hoping to share about interesting research publications and industry updates too. Please note that everything shared in this newsletter is my own opinion and NOT a financial advice.
Cheers!