Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface
威尔 · 马歇尔: 创造地球表面可检索数据库的任务
At Planet, Will Marshall leads overall strategy for commercializing new geospatial data and analytics that are disrupting agriculture, mapping, energy, the environment and other vertical markets. Full bio
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the entire Earth, every day,
to solve was simple.
图片很旧,甚至早就过时了,
typically years old,
每周、每月都在发生,
on days and weeks and months,
看见变化,并且采取行动。
to see that change and take action.
照下了美丽的蓝色星球图片,
taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972
一个脆弱的星球上。
that we're on a fragile planet.
to the next level,
to take action, to take care of it.
Apollo projects of our own,
最多的一组卫星后,
of satellites in human history,
the entire Earth, every single day.
记录着地球的全貌。
很轻松——但事实并非如此。
really simple -- it was not.
over 200 satellites in orbit,
在轨道上环绕运行,
stations we built around the planet.
29兆像素的地球表面图片。
images of the Earth down each day.
of the Earth's surface,
more than 500 images.
documenting immense change.
记录着巨大的改变。
to improve farmers' crop yields.
提高地图的精度。
to improve the maps you find online.
for border security
比如洪水、火灾或地震。
after floods and fires and earthquakes.
and stopping deforestation.
fleeing Myanmar.
in the ongoing crisis in Syria,
to announce Planet stories.
Planet stories的上线。
在网上看到所有的图片。
all of our imagery online.
except it's up-to-date imagery,
Google Earth,
发生的巨大改变。
that happen around our planet.
through the 500 images that we have
创造一个延时视频,
dramatically over time.
发生的巨大变化,
分享到社交网络上。
for news journalists,
创造了这个工具,
不带偏见的信息。
about world events.
for anyone to use,
to find and see the changes on the planet
发现地球发生的变化,
of information about the planet,
就是空间加上人工智能。
with artificial intelligence
in all the satellite images.
to find cats in videos online
information on our pictures.
this is a ship, this is a tree,
这是个大楼,这是个卡车。
this is a building, this is a truck.
每天产生的几百万张图片
for all of the millions of images
on the planet, every day.
to count the planes in the airport.
in the whole stack of images before it,
北京机场飞机的统计图。
the planes in Beijing airport over time.
任何一个机场这样操作。
for all the airports around the world.
in the port of Vancouver.
but this time we would look for vessels.
we select the area,
追踪并组织非法捕鱼的
to people in coast guards
and stop illegal fishing.
using AIS beacons.
that are not doing that.
those illegal fishing vessels.
not just ships and planes
of all these objects over time
进行数字化集成。
from people's work flows.
更复杂的浏览器,
more sophisticated browsers
from different sources.
abstracting out the imagery entirely
interface to the Earth.
are there in Pakistan?
of the trees that have been felled
we're trying to go towards,
每天记录地球表面的图像,
to image the whole planet every day
对地球上所有事物编码,
all the objects on the planet over time
建立了搜索引擎,
and made it searchable.
and making it searchable.
同样方便大家查询。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Will Marshall - Space scientistAt Planet, Will Marshall leads overall strategy for commercializing new geospatial data and analytics that are disrupting agriculture, mapping, energy, the environment and other vertical markets.
Why you should listen
Will Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Planet. Prior to Planet, he was a Scientist at NASA/USRA where he worked on missions "LADEE" and "LCROSS," served as co-principal investigator on PhoneSat, and was the technical lead on research projects in space debris remediation.
Marshall received his PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford and his Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University and Harvard.
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