New Cloud Platform for Mastering Geospatial Data Analysis

Most of image analysis tasks that required ENVI or Erdas Imagine software are now available online thanks to EOS Platform. Earth Observing System (EOS) released this new cloud service for search, analysis, storing, and visualization of large amounts of geospatial data.

EOS Platform includes four mutually integrated EOS products, which together provide a unified cloud workspace with a powerful toolset for geospatial analysts. You can browse a catalogue of satellite datasets in LandViewer to find the right one and then save it to EOS Storage with a single click. Image data stored in computer can also be uploaded to cloud and instantly used for remote sensing analysis or image processing.

EOS Processing offers a great experience with its sixteen image processing workflows that run in browser. They include the popular raster tools (pansharpening, reprojection, merge), remote sensing analytics, photogrammetry, and proprietary feature extraction and classification algorithms designed by EOS team to address the main challenges of agriculture, forestry, oil, gas, retail, city planning, defense and other industries. Such pre-processing tasks as cloud detection or radiometric calibration refine raw data for further analysis: images can be corrected for atmospheric effects in order to obtain the real ground radiance or reflectance values.

On top of that, users can get the best cartographic features of EOS Vision for vector data visualization and, as announced for the future, its analysis. Among other features announced for the upcoming updates are LiDAR analysis and 3D modeling.

Data agnostic platform.

When it comes to raster data, users can work with a variety of satellite and airborne datasets in LandViewer, EOS Storage, and EOS Processing. Users get access to collections of Sentinel-1 and 2, Landsat 8 and 7, MODIS, NAIP, CBERS-4 images and more. Other than downloading images from public datasets, they can also upload their own GeoTiff, JPEG, JPEG 2000 files and apply GIS data processing algorithms via API or from the web interface. EOS Vision is a tool for vector data operations with multiple formats support (ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, KMZ).

Feature extraction and classification.

The convolutional neural networks, pre-trained by EOS to extract features from imagery, let you apply state-of-art methods to detect objects and track changes from space.

- Having only a set of multi-temporal images and change detection workflow, users can track how illegal deforestation progresses over time.

- Edge detection can show the exact boundaries of agricultural lands down to the last pixel.

- It is possible to estimate the parking lot traffic of largest shopping centers with car detection algorithm.

The best of spectral analysis.

Products within EOS Platform support almost all remote sensor types and the user can choose from a long list of spectral indices to calculate on the fly. Aside from the complete set of vegetation indices (NDVI, ReCI, etc.), there are also indices to outline landscape features (NDWI, NDSI) and burned areas (NBR). One of the most useful features is the ability to experiment with spectral bands: users can create custom band combinations and indexes on top of the default ones.

Agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, and more industries.

A tandem of EOS products form a comprehensive toolbox both for general use and for industry-specific cases. With vegetation indices and crop classification feature, agronomists can continuously monitor crop conditions to detect plant diseases, pests, and droughts. Forestry specialists can assess fire damages, monitor forest health, track and enforce logging restrictions.

EOS Platform is a great choice for regional and urban planning. It helps users identify land cover classes to generate a vegetation map and can also make a complete list of urban features like buildings, roads, or other major features in the region.

The platform can tackle disaster management by measuring flood extent and finding fire boundaries. When it comes to oil and gas, it is capable of identifying oil rigs and assessing the environmental impact.

Unlock the full potential of Earth observation data with EOS Platform, directly in your browser: https://eos.com/platform