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Product at @earthgenome. @openstreetmap Foundation Board. Previous @mapbox Community team, @pifgov, founder @hotosm, @mapkibera.

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[mikel @mikel]

Global Earth Index. Search anywhere for anything. A breakthrough moment. Sign up for the waitlist, we'll let you in soon. Fill critical environmental data gaps. I am so excited to see what you do with it.

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

🚨Announcement: we're thrilled to share that we've launched global coverage in Earth Index. Searchable across 3.2 billion tiles, Earth Index unlocks a new level of capability, enabling anyone, anywhere, to use AI to understand the state of the environment w/ease and precision.

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While today is a milestone, we aren't pausing. We know there's much to fine tune in how we deploy foundation models to get the best performance, & features that will be critical to integrating Earth Index into regular workflows. Tell us what works today and what more you need.

[Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦 @deepseadawn]

Tell *us* who is being wasteful 😡🏈
#StandwithUSAID #saveforeignaid

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Earth Foundation Models having a break out moment?

Great talking with @jackiesnow about the positive impact this human centered approach to Earth data and AI is having today.

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

Our work with @mongabay leveraging Earth Index profiled in the Wall Street Journal as tangible example of impact with Earth data AI Foundation models.

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... The journalists used these detections to plan their reporting trips, where to go and who to talk to, how to keep themselves safe. They depended on the veracity of our work."

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Ed writes so well on our work. Worth a read.

"A lot of machine learning for remote sensing can feel like an academic exercise ... This is fine when the goal is to push boundaries in algorithm development. It’s not great when someone is trying to work closely with the data...

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

Working with journalists keeps our tech sharply focused on creating useful knowledge. In this post, Ed Boyda reflects on our collaboration with @mongabay and how AI assisted Earth analysis fits so well into investigative reporting. https://t.co/smdqYbZxR8

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Thanks Ryan Gajarawala and Schmidt Futures for accelerating Earth Index user adoption.

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

As a non-profit, we benefit from amazing collaborators. For the last 6 months Ryan Gajarawala has scaled up our user engagement on Earth Index, via the support of Schmidt Futures. https://t.co/xOXpL3IWIB

[OpenStreetMap @openstreetmap]

📣 The OSMF has been selected by the Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechagency) for a service agreement in the amount of €384k over 2 years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OSM's core software.

#opensource #opendata
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[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

Our founder Steve McCormick shares a short video by @SusCon_CA on our work together on groundwater recharge in California & reflects on how well targeted digital tools can accelerate solutions to the most challenging environmental problems. https://t.co/5Cg2qvDkQH

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

Hutch shares how we selected Major TOM grids, and the release of Go and Python libraries to work with Major TOM grids.

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

📰🌐GIJN just released 2024's best investigative stories in Spanish & our team contributed to 2 of the 8 featured series! Congratulations to our partners - we look forward to using the power of Earth Index to unlock more impactful stories.

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[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

We ran along with @ConservationOrg experimenting with generative AI to make environmental research more accessible. https://t.co/7HjTvDmwwE

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Big news today -- Earth Genome has won the AWS IMAGINE Grant! Momentum is building for Earth Index to go planetary scale, and put Earth observation and AI in the hands of researchers, journalists, decision makers and advocates worldwide.

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

We are thrilled to announce that Earth Genome has been selected as a winner of the 2024–2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant, a public grant opportunity for nonprofits using technology to address the world’s most pressing challenges!

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[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

We met for a very full 2 days to take stock of where were are with Earth Index, get aligned on what to build in 2025, and organize ourselves together.

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We built Climate TRACE 2024! More coverage and granularity that ever. 100 time more data, and the map experience is even better. This has been an intense fun build. Read about how we built it https://t.co/s8tx0pOwKC

Incredibly proud of the all out effort by our collective team!

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

Climate TRACE 2024 has been delivered at #COP29: 100 times more data with monthly granularity for 1.8 million individual sources, and now including health damaging non-GHG pollutants, covering every area of the world including 11,422 urban areas. https://t.co/oxmnuluOHU

[Earth Genome @EarthGenome]

We work closely with our users as we build Earth Index, and recently took a deeper look at their motivations, needs, and challenges with AI and earth observation.

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