#7 Are We There Yet? Announcing SpaceNet 5: Roads, Routes, & Travel Times

Determining optimal routing paths in near real-time is at the heart of many humanitarian, civil, military, and commercial challenges. This statement is as true today as it was two years ago when the SpaceNet® partners announced the SpaceNet Challenge 3, focusing on road network detection. 

On today’s pod we are joined by Ryan Lewis and Adam Van Etten to learn about SpaceNet’s upcoming fifth challenge that revisits road detection, routing, and now travel time estimation from satellite imagery. This public challenge will test participants’ ability to automatically extract road networks from satellite imagery, along with travel time estimates along all roadways, thereby permitting true optimal routing. 

SpaceNet is a collaborative effort between CosmiQ Works, AWS, Maxar, and Intel AI. Learn more at www.spacenet.ai.