Drew Bollinger

Developer, Development Seed @drewbo19

Drew is a data analyst and software developer at Development Seed, with rich experience running advanced statistical and spatial analysis. He leads the machine learning team and has a keen eye for building useful products and interfaces. Drew has built several highly-usable satellite imagery browsers that allows users to easily search and sort through open earth observation data.

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Artificial Intelligence 101

Hemisphere A • Wed, Sep 19 • 12:00AM

Let’s peel away the hype and talk specifics on artificial intelligence for earth observations. What can you expect as a customer of AI? What’s the current state of the art and what can AI tell us? What are the pre-reqs in order to do this well?
Workshop Track: Machine Learning Facilitators

Label Maker and Robosat

Oceanic A/B • Thu, Sep 20 • 12:00AM

There are a handful of existing annotated datasets for satellite imagery, but they’re mostly limited to urban regions in Western countries. This presents a challenge when attempting to use machine learning algorithms in non-Western regions. This workshop will show you how to generate custom data for feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery. We’ll use two open source tools, Label Maker and RobotSat, to prepare the data, train an algorithm, and predict over a test area. Difficulty: Intermediate. Prerequisites: Basic understanding of machine learning, satellite imagery, and OpenStreetMap.

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