Mapping Poverty from Space, Food Security, and the Deep Learning Revolution with Prof. David Lobell

Stanford Professor David Lobell was using satellites to measure things like crop efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions when he was approached by fellow Profs. Marshall Burke and Stefano Ermon. “Marshall came to me and said, I know you're doing all this cool stuff in agriculture with remote sensing, but I'm trying to get information on poverty, and it seems like you should be able to tell me something about poverty when you're looking from space,” Prof. Lobell recalls. He, Burke, and Ermon went on to found Atlas AI, which applies satellite data and artificial intelligence to deliver insights on food security, poverty, and sustainability. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Prof. Lobell talks with Sam McClure about: - How satellite data unlocked new frontiers in measuring food security and poverty in developing regions - Why all three co-founders stayed on faculty — and what they wish they'd known before they started - And how Atlas AI functions as a public benefit corporation, or PBC

Atlas AI

David Lobell

⁠Sam McClure⁠

Produced and edited by Eric Johnson from ⁠LightningPod⁠

This podcast was developed and published by ⁠Stanford Ecopreneurship