SpaceML Named One of 2021’s Top Innovators

We are proud to announce that SpaceML’s Worldview Search Project, championed by NASA IMPACT and led by Anirudh Koul, has been included as one of UNESCO’s Top 100 projects solving problems related to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with the application of artificial intelligence. 

The SpaceML Worldview Search Team has also won the 2021 E&T Innovation Award for Diversity, Inclusion, and Impact and been shortlisted for the 2021 E&T Innovation Award for Sustainability & Climate Change.

The Innovation Awards, which recognize the best new innovations across engineering and technology, are run by E&T Magazine and The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). Awards were given for the most pioneering engineering and technology innovations across 17 sectors, from energy and sustainability to transport and healthcare. 

The Worldview Search Team’s entry “Distributed Open-source Research with Citizen Scientists for the Advancement of Space Technology for NASA” was chosen from hundreds of entries for the Diversity, Inclusion, and Impact category. The team is also delighted to be shortlisted in the Sustainability & Climate Change category for their entry “The NoCode Earth Data Curator from Unlabeled Petabyte Scale Imagery.”

IET President, Sir Julian Young said: “These annual awards celebrate the achievements of the most outstanding innovators across engineering and technology.  Our finalists come from a diverse range of companies and academic institutions from across the world, with their innovations tackling major economic and societal challenges. 

“With the IET’s mission to inspire excellence in engineering and technology, we are so proud to demonstrate our support, putting ground-breaking innovations in the spotlight and helping to advance this essential and fundamental work.  On behalf of all our members, I send a huge congratulations to all our winners.”

SpaceML.org’s mission is to enable scientists, scholars, and science enthusiasts alike by providing access to machine learning projects, code, MLOPs, server-side compute, analysis ready data snippets, and maintained benchmark datasets, in the spirit of open science. SpaceML.org operates in partnership with the Frontier Development Lab, a public-private partnership between Trillium Technologies and NASA in the U.S.A and ESA in Europe. Learn more about the Frontier Development Lab and SpaceML.