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Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

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Re: Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

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Post by bcks »

The project is more or less abandoned.

It was scheduled to shut down last year: https://twitter.com/golan/status/976202325076467712

It's also open source, though the code hasn't been touched in a few years: https://github.com/CreativeInquiry/terrapattern

[edit: noted shutdown year]

Re: Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

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Post by cdurth »

bcks wrote: post #2

The project is more or less abandoned. It was scheduled to shut down last year: https://twitter.com/golan/status/976202325076467712 It's also open source, though the code hasn't been touched in a few years: https://github.com/CreativeInquiry/terrapattern [edit: noted shutdown year]

This tweet is from 2018, inferring May 2018? Still appears that it was abandoned, just correcting.

Re: Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

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Post by mediaman »

scothalverson wrote: post #6

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a former employee of Descartes Labs. That being said, Descartes Labs has something very similar on a US-wide scale or global scale, depending on the base layer you select. see: https://descarteslabs.com/search

Wow - you guys need to find a way to commercialize this.

I manufacture products for an agricultural segment (where limited data exists for sales leads), and was able to focus on one example customer site with some of the unique structures they use. Then it brought me loads of other potential customer sites that matched similarly.

You don't have any workflow to help turn this into leads, so then I have to figure out the address, use Google streetview or something to figure out what place it is, and then turn that into a lead I can turn over to salesperson. But if this was made easier, it would be a great lead-gen machine and I'd happily pay for it. My prospects can't hide from satellites!

Re: Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

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Post by scothalverson »

mediaman wrote: post #7
scothalverson wrote: post #6

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a former employee of Descartes Labs. That being said, Descartes Labs has something very similar on a US-wide scale or global scale, depending on the base layer you select. see: https://descarteslabs.com/search

Wow - you guys need to find a way to commercialize this. I manufacture products for an agricultural segment (where limited data exists for sales leads), and was able to focus on one example customer site with some of the unique structures they use. Then it brought me loads of other potential customer sites that matched similarly. You don't have any workflow to help turn this into leads, so then I have to figure out t…

I'm a bit out of touch with plans at this point (left DL in November), but certainly one of the points of this as a demo is to show off a capability that could lead to a number of specific use cases. If your interested in using it as you described, the DL sales team would certainly like to talk with you. Or you could contact me (my username at gmail) and I can point you in the right direction.

Re: Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

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Post by forgotmysn »

cdurth wrote: post #5
bcks wrote: post #2

The project is more or less abandoned. It was scheduled to shut down last year: https://twitter.com/golan/status/976202325076467712 It's also open source, though the code hasn't been touched in a few years: https://github.com/CreativeInquiry/terrapattern [edit: noted shutdown year]

This tweet is from 2018, inferring May 2018? Still appears that it was abandoned, just correcting.

2018 was last year?
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