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

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.