Project Shackleton: Real-Time Routing with Satellite Imagery

When standard navigation techniques (i.e. Google Maps) are down and time is of the essence, how might one evacuate from (or position aid to) a hazardous locale? In this post we explore one option, which we call Project Shackleton. As we’ve noted before, in a disaster scenario (be it an earthquake or an invasion) where communications are unreliable, overhead imagery often provides the first glimpse into what is happening on the ground. Accordingly, Project Shackleton combines satellite/aerial imagery with advanced computer vision and graph theory analytics. These predictions and analytics are incorporated into an interactive dashboard for computing a number of evacuation and routing scenarios. In this post, we explore these scenarios, and provide details to the <a href="https://github.com/Geodesic-Labs/shackleton" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">codebase</a> that we proudly released to the open source last week at the <a href="https://2022.foss4g.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">FOSS4G</a> conference. <a href="https://medium.com/geodesic/project-shackleton-real-time-routing-with-satellite-imagery-a8621972e1e">Website</a>