David Lobell

Pre-training a vision transformer (ViT) for each large dataset/domain is becoming too expensive...💰 We introduce 🔥ExPLoRA🔥, to extend unsupervised pre-training for ViTs on new domains and create foundation models using very few parameters! arxiv.org/abs/2406.10973 1/8

We're thrilled to share that Atlas AI is partnering with @NutritionIntl to combat #malnutrition, a crisis affecting over 800 million people worldwide. 🌍 Read the announcement here: atlasai.co/blog/nutrition…

Earlier this week Atlas AI was honored with one of @googlecloud 's most significant recognitions -- 2024 Partner of the Year in the category of Industry Sustainability Solutions. Watch our CEO @AbeTarapani's acceptance speech below. #GoogleCloudPartnerAwards @gcloudpartners

Going to #AGU23? If so here's a short list of some great talks and posters to check out

Can you give ChatGPT a location and ask it to predict average income, population density, or home value? 😮 …We present GeoLLM, a powerful method for extracting geospatial knowledge from LLMs! Even rivals satellite imagery for prediction tasks 🔥 arxiv.org/abs/2310.06213 1/6

🌾 Apply for our Remote Sensing for Economic Development Fellowship! We're looking for a postdoc w/ skills in analyzing satellite imagery to develop & validate novel applications targeted at low-income economies. Proposals due 7/31. Learn more & apply ➡️ stanford.io/3pnTdWA

Today @atlasai_co and @googlecloud introduced a joint vision for how we'll harness our platforms to promote a more #inclusive global economy. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/su…

Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment @FoodSecurity_SU now accepting applications for our postdoc fellowship. Open to candidates across social + natural sciences. Please apply! (or at least RT) @FSIStanford @StanfordWoods fse.fsi.stanford.edu/fse-postdoctor…

Stanford welcomes United Nations @WFPChief David Beasley for an Oct. 1 conversation with @Ertharin1 about 21st c. humanitarian aid challenges and solutions. His talk is open to the public. Learn more and RSVP: bit.ly/2kOUMLQ

We're hiring across the board at AtlasAI: atlasai.co/careers-atlasa… We're looking for great engineers, product developers, and sales folks who want to work for a tech company whose whole purpose is to do good in the world. We pay market rates :) Please RT!

The tyranny of national averages: link.medium.com/22hRs5bsxY Blog post with our excellent summer intern @ApoorvaRed. We tend to measure poverty at the national level but this hides huge subnational variation. New methods and data are starting to allow us to do better.

"Being able to take risks and learn quickly are two of [agriculture's] most critical needs. And both of these require good data." Read FSE Dir. @DavidBLobell's new op-ed in @sciam on the importance of increasing agricultural data around the world. bit.ly/2Gwaq72

#HappeningNow : Signing MoU with @atlasai_co to utilise #satellite data, machine learning & predictive analytics for agriculture development.

Learn the story behind Atlas AI medium.com/atlasai/a-year… @DavidBLobell @MarshallBBurke @ermonste

Come to our #AAAI19 Oral Wed 11:30am @ Coral 2 🎙️Tile2Vec: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Spatially Distributed Data 🗺️ermongroup.github.io/blog/tile2vec/ 🗺️Without any labeled data, performance comparable to supervised CNNs trained on 50k+ labels for land cover classification task

Check out new research from @DavidBLobell, @GeorgeAzzari & team "Satellite mapping of tillage practices in the North Central US region from 2005 to 2016" via @sciencedirect bit.ly/2RwzGgD

Can satellites deliver accurate measures of crop yields in smallholder farming systems? @DavidBLobell weighs in and references newly published research from an @FoodSecurity_SU & @WorldBank collaboration. bit.ly/2J3k1S1

Refusing to acknowledge climate change will leave us unprepared, Noah Diffenbaugh says. stanford.io/2xslT0Q #HurricaneHarvey

Withdrawing from Paris agreement could cost the US economy $8 trillion g-feed.com/2017/06/the-co…

New g-feed post "Are the curious trends in despair and diets related?" bit.ly/2pkNZH5.