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I'm working on environmental software at the moment, the best unanswered service? A good data API for climate emergencies and disasters classification/push noti

• layoric 7y ago
  That is a great area to work in! I use to work in a government agency in on a very similar area (bush fire hot spot tracking), so your efforts are appreciated! Tedious is one way to put it, but I agree the tech side of push notifications, servers, APIs etc isn't hard but as you've alluded to, disaster detection/classification is tricky and if you are interested in the space, government jobs tend to be the most stable as commercially it doesn't have an obvious "market" consumers are willing to pay for. Similar to utility scale sector in energy, you'll have a hard time as a small team convincing government and commercial weather operators that your detection or forecasting of events from satellite imagery etc are more accurate, so my advice would be to do this with your eyes open and produce as much data validation evidence as you can to share widely so others can validate it. Working with live satellite imagery has a lot of challenges, and pulling clean data out of them consistently. Each satellite is different and has its own biases, operational issues that can be tricky but working on these problems I think is a really useful skill so not time wasted IMO. Best of luck!