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Eli Litwack joins the team!

Join us in welcoming Eli Litwack to the team! Eli will bring fresh thinking to our work on machine learning and computer vision.

Monday, May 1, 2017 - 01:00

End-to-End Satellite Imagery Analysis

Today we launched the alpha version of Skynet Scrub, a tool for cleaning the outputs of Skynet, our machine learning and recognition process.

Friday, April 21, 2017 - 01:00

How We Publish Satellite Data on the Web

Cloud computing has opened the door for satellite data to make a daily difference in the lives of farmers, emergency responders, policymakers, and many other professionals.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 01:00

Welcome Seth Vincent!

Welcome Seth Vincent, the latest member of the Development Seed family! We are delighted to have Seth on the team.

Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 01:00

Closing the Energy Data Gap

Today, the World Bank launched energydata.info, an initiative that addresses the global data gap in the energy sector.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 01:00

Open States, Open Community

This past Sunday, Open States, a volunteer open-gov project, hosted a full-day code sprint at Development Seed.

Monday, March 20, 2017 - 00:00

SatSummit Highlights

At SatSummit, 231 global development and satellite industry experts joined us to map how we can do smarter development work with satellite data.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 00:00

DC's Bold Family Leave Policy

We are delighted that a bold family leave policy has moved forward in DC.

Friday, February 17, 2017 - 00:00

Fed Mapping Happy Hour

This upcoming Monday we’ll be hosting a Fed Mapping Happy Hour, our way of saying thank you to the hard working geographers and data folk in our Federal Government.

Sunday, February 5, 2017 - 00:00

Open Source Machine Learning

Tomorrow, I will be at SatSummit talking about Development Seed’s machine learning work and what we’ve learned over 18 months of building open source tools for imagery analysis.

Monday, January 30, 2017 - 00:00