Open Machine Learning for Satellite Imagery: Hamed Alemohammad - MBM#34

Hamed Alemohammad was the previous Executive Director of the Radiant Earth Foundation, a Non-Profit focused on building open machine learning tools & datasets for satellite imagery through projects like the ML Hub & STAC, Spatio Temporal Asset Catalog. --- <br />Episode Sponsor: OpenCage<br />Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. <br />They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! <br />---About Hamed <br />- Twitter<br />- LinkedInShownotesLandCoverNetPaperML Hub datasetsRadiant Earth FoundationData DrivenClark names inaugural director of Clark Labs: Center for Geospatial AnalyticsBook RecommendationAtomic Habits by James ClearTimestamps <br />00:00 Introduction <br />03:01 Hamed's Interest for Earth Observation <br />08:53 Joining the Radiant Earth Foundation <br />10:25 What is the Radiant Earth Foundation? <br />12:14 Why a Non-Profit? <br />15:34 Finances & Incentives: Where does the money come from? <br />19:10 Choosing to focus on Machine Learning; ML Hub <br />26:43 Capacity & Community Building <br />30:42 Only a 10 people team <br />34:44 Comparing to Google Earth Engine, AWS & Microsoft Planetary Computer <br />41:01 Making Decisions & Measuring Progress in a Non-Profit <br />44:12 Machine Learning Competitions & Kaggle <br />48:22 Challenges of Working with External Organizations <br />51:19 Building Models is Sexy but only a small part of Machine Learning <br />55:55 Who is the ML Hub build for? <br />57:59 From Researcher to Executive Director <br />01:01:37 What does being on the Board of Directors Mean? <br />01:06:18 Hamed's Journey from Iran to working in the US <br />01:11:03 Advice for people outside the US & Europe <br />01:15:46 The limitations of English for a truly worldwide reachFeel free to reach out! <br />- Website<br />- My Twitter<br />- Podcast Twitter<br />- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter<br />- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work