Pixel8Earth·Apr 26, 2021SnapMapping the World in 3DWhen Pramukta, Winnie, Chris and I started Pixel8.earth we wanted to map the world in 3D and a few months ago we received an amazing boost…A response icon2A response icon2
Pixel8Earth·Jan 26, 2021Building a Pixel8 Aerial Pipeline — Because Bird’s Eye is AwesomeAs the team has been building out the Pixel8 platform we’ve leaned pretty heavily on the magic of commodity cameras to create awesome…
Pixel8Earth·Dec 15, 2020Should the “3D Map of the Globe” be a Public Good?I’ve read a few stories over the last year about the need for a back up to GPS. The New Yorker has highlighted the vulnerabilities of the…A response icon2A response icon2
Pixel8Earth·Nov 9, 2020Kicking Off the Pixel8.earth Ambassador ProgramWe’ve been chomping at the bit to open up Pixel8earth to the public. The challenge in launching a platform so computationally intensive is…
Pixel8Earth·Oct 5, 2020Deploying the Lowest Earth Orbit Satellite to Edit OpenStreetMapOne of the challenges we’ve seen with OpenStreetMaps over the year is access to current remote imagery for creating and editing vectors…
Pixel8Earth·Sep 10, 2020Is the Future Open?Given the amazing success of OpenStreetMap in creating a free map of the world, you’d think it is a foregone conclusion that “open” is the…
Pixel8Earth·Aug 18, 2020A User Centered Engineering Journey to Escape GoPro’s Software ShacklesAs we get closer to opening up Pixel8earth for more users we’ve been doing lots of dog-fooding. Everyone on the team has a 360 GoPro that…A response icon1A response icon1
Pixel8Earth·Jul 24, 2020A Perpetually Updating 3D Reference Point CloudOne of the tools Pixel8 leverages to help georectify 3D point clouds from video/photos is open aerial LiDAR data like USGS’s 3DEP program…
Pixel8Earth·Jun 24, 2020The Case for Affordable and Open 3D Mapping to Accelerate Augmented Reality and AutonomyIntroduction
Pixel8Earth·Apr 20, 2020Rapid 3D Mapping Using Commodity VideoWhile our Boulder Mapping Experiment was a ton of fun — getting our friends together every weekend to take photos was a big ask. So, we’ve…A response icon1A response icon1
