Revan Rangotis and Dr. Sergey Sukhanov represented AI Superior at the DestinE Platform Launchpad Contest in Brussels. The contest was run by Serco and OVHcloud, and 12 startups took part, each proposing an idea for a new service on Destination Earth (DestinE), the European initiative for building digital twins of the Earth.
Revan, who leads our R&D work on Earth Observation embeddings, gave the pitch. He presented our latest results and the next steps we have planned. The slide on stage showed TwinSearch, a pipeline that takes the signature of an Earth event from satellite and digital twin data, computes embeddings for it and searches for the closest matching signatures across time and space. Because DestinE data includes simulations, the same approach can also be used to explore future events and “what if” scenarios.
Our proposal did not win an award this time. The event was still well worth it for us: the discussions throughout the day were of high quality, and we see EO embeddings as a direction with real potential for commercial Earth Observation applications. We will share more about this work soon.
Congratulations to the selected teams: SaferPLACES, Latitudo 40, eOdyn and Geoskop. Many thanks to Serco, OVHcloud and the European Space Agency (ESA) for organising the event.
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