"Using the the toolbox from ICME’s core classes including CME305, I was able to develop algorithms to detect city centers and their movements over time..."
Everyday there are an uncountable number of changes that happen in the world. At Planet Labs we aim to image the entire surface of the earth everyday via satellites to track these changes. Our goal is to make the world a better place to live.
Using the toolbox from ICME’s core classes including CME305, I was able to develop algorithms to detect city centers and their movements over time, detect agriculture health, automatically find the signal-to-noise ratios of our images, and create a new high-speed image matching program, among others.
Each of the previous applications sit heavily on the mathematics that I learned in ICME. Without understanding numerical limitations these algorithms would not scale. Without understanding multivariate optimization they would not work. And without a foundational knowledge of discrete math they would not exists. All of these together allowed me to help Planet Labs take a tiny step towards making the world a more knowledgable and sustainable place.
