Business Case for Identifying and Predicting Climate Change Impacts using satellite Earth Observation images, big data sets, and machine learning

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Deploy Solutions
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nicholas Kellett
Founder & CEO, Deploy Solutions
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3
Project
Academic experience
120 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Advanced level

Project scope

Categories
Market research Product or service launch Information technology
Skills
market research, marketing, product development research on target market and social media business cases
Details

The Goal:

Help research and document a business opportunity for a new climate change impact software product.

The Product

The software product would use satellite Earth Observations, big data, and machine learning to identify past climate change impacts and predict future impacts. It would focus on end users and stakeholders (such as municipal governments or insurance companies) who need to understand the impacts without requiring them to know the underlying science or technology.

The initial product focus is specifically on coastal erosion and sea-level rise. The expected high level focus/features are:

1) Big data sets from satellites, including Earth Observation images

2) Data fusion with other terrestrial data sets such as photos, drone images, coastline measurements, flooding observations, etc.

3) Machine learning algorithms to examine the data and automatically identify past impacts (such as flooding or coastline erosion over time) and predict future ones

4) A set of technical components that allow end users to collect, view, modify, collaborate, and share the data products. Examples are a collaboration website, search engine, data warehouse, report engine, mobile application, etc.

5) Ultimately the idea is to make it easy to allow end user stakeholders to identify a range of climate change impacts in their geographic areas of interest, predict future ones, and improve their planning, policies, etc.

Your Contribution

The analysis will be used as justification to commit further corporate resources and focus, and serve as backgrounder for investments and fundraising.

We are looking for business case assistance with

  • Market analysis
  • Customer analysis
  • (if time allows) Very high level revenue streams/risks analysis

We are looking for a well researched, fair, and factual business case whatever the conclusions are.

Deliverables
No deliverables exist for this project.

About the company

Company
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Government, It & computing, Business & management, Environment, Airlines, aviation & aerospace

Deploy Solutions connects Earth observation data with the needs of organisations and businesses by providing innovative Space Apps — software applications which use data from space.

We are streamlining the software development process using a software factory —a standardised approach with unique outcomes. This allows us to reduce development costs, risks, and the total cost of ownership, empowering organisations to take advantage of space data.

Find out how Deploy Solutions can help your organisation benefit from space data using a software factory approach.