Microsoft Garage's new Earth Lens app for iPad taps machine learning algorithms to identify objects in satellite images. It's available in open source.

An overview of deep learning architectures that help computers detect objects, a key technology used in self-driving cars and healthcare.

This week, the Earth Fire Alliance released its first images from a newly launched satellite system called FireSat, designed to detect wildfires in near real-time. The program is led by Brian ...

But the U.S. military isn’t the only group or entity with a legitimate interest in overhead satellite imagery, and possibly automating the detection of objects of interest in that imagery.