Charlottesville, Virginia, December 20, 2019: Astraea, Inc. announced today its release of EarthAI Notebook, a new tool for analyzing geospatial data. EarthAI Notebook is a fully hosted and managed JuypterLab Notebook designed specifically to analyze raster data at scale, allowing users to unlock insight from geospatial imagery at an unprecedented scale.
“Imagery data is currently too large, costly, and complex to run any sort of efficient analysis on,” says Brendan Richardson, CEO at Astraea. “We believe that EarthAI Notebook will enable scientists, developers, and organizations alike to extract information from the terabytes of Earth-observation data being collected each day.”
Features and benefits of EarthAI Notebook include:
- Cloud-Native: The hosted solution lets a user to seamlessly scale analysis from their laptop to the cloud.
- Data Included: Access over 8+ Petabytes of Earth-observing satellite imagery through our integrated API connection to Astraea’s Earth OnDemand platform.
- Imagery Optimized: Provides users the tools required to analyze raster data using Python, SQL, or Scala in a tabular DataFrame, powered by Apache Spark.
- Commercial Friendly Licensing: All tiers of EarthAI are intended for commercial applications.
An early-stage startup located in Charlottesville, Virginia, Astraea enables individuals and organizations to unlock insight from geospatial data at global scale. A cloud-native platform, it provides the tools and infrastructure required to build production-level analytics on satellite and drone imagery.
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