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ArcGIS Blog
Global Land Cover Updates
Annual 10-meter global coverage from 2017-2023.
IO Press Release
Impact Observatory Announces the General Availability of IO Monitor to Deliver AI-Powered Global Space-based High Resolution Living Land Cover Land Maps
IO Monitor Enables Customers to Understand Climate, Financial, and Environmental Risk in Near Real-time and at Previously Unobtainable Speed and Scale.
Upstream Tech
Exploring Custom Land Use & Land Cover Maps for Monitoring Change
Join us for a session introducing Custom Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change maps from Impact Observatory, which enable decision makers to understand risks and anticipate change in near-real-time.
Minds Behind Maps
Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact Observatory, Descartes Labs & National Geographic
Steve Brumby is the founder & CTO of Impact Observatory, a company working on providing rapid land cover maps anywhere on Earth. He puts it as wanting to provide "the maps the US takes for granted, all around the globe". Steve was also a co-founder & the CTO at Descartes Labs and worked at National Geographic.
IO Press Release
AI-Powered Impact Observatory Announces Partnership with Planet to Deliver Near Real-Time Change Monitoring with Best-in-Market Accuracy, Frequency and Resolution
Collaboration leverages PlanetScope Imagery Data to help customers better understand our changing world and make critical decisions faster.
Washington Business Journal
AI satellite mapping startup Impact Observatory raises funding in D.C.
D.C. geospatial mapping company Impact Observatory, which uses artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to power its technology, has raised a nearly $6 million seed round to bring its product to market — and multiply in size.
Esri
Esri Releases Latest Land Cover Map with Improved AI Modeling
2017–2022 High-Resolution Maps in Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World are Now More Temporally Consistent
Axios
The golden age of Earth observation is here
From monitoring deforestation in real time to tracking greenhouse gas emissions and fact-checking claims made during wars, satellite data is providing an unprecedented view of what's happening on the ground each day.