MARASH, TURKEY: SATELLITE IMAGERY (LEFT) FROM EARTH IMAGING COMPANY PLANET LABS PBC AND THE OUTPUT FROM XVIEW2 (RIGHT) ATTRIBUTED TO UC BERKELEY, THE DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT, AND MICROSOFT.
A visual computing project, xView2, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, uses machine learning combined with satellite imagery to identify infrastructure damage and its severity.
xView2 has already helped with disaster logistics and on-the-ground rescue missions in Turkey.
xView2 can map the impacted area in minutes, which aids organizations in coordinating and prioritizing crisis responses.
- An open-source project, xView2, was sponsored by the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit and Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute.
- xView2 has collaborated with numerous research partners, including Microsoft and the University of California, Berkeley.
- The xView2 program is free, and the code is open source, so anyone can use it.
