Venue: Shed 6, 4 Queens WharfTe Aro, Wellington

BRINGING DATA TO LIFE: APPLYINGGEOAI AND GEOBI IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

O R B I C A . W O R L D

FROM NEW ZEALAND TO EUROPEINTRO TO ORBICA

Our purpose is simple.

“To enhance a billion

lives through the power

of geography.”

CONSTANTLY THINKING OUTSIDE THE QUADRILATERALMEET THE ORBICANS

KURT JANSSENCEO & Founder

NEAL JOHNSTONLocation Data Specialist

ANTONIN CAENGeospatial Architect

FAISAL ABBASGeospatial Craftsman

LOUISA TAYLORCommercial Manager

SANTOSH SESHADRIGeospatial Innovator

BRIDGET EDWARDSChief Financial Officer

SUVARNA DUDAMIT Specialist

WILL JONESLocation Data Specialist

SAGAR SONIData Scientist (AI)

ROB PARSONSGeospatialist

VANESSA O’BRIENCommunications Manager

PETER ROSEDirector (Europe)

BANIKA SIROHIFull-stack Developer

SUNNY SUNGeospatial Developer

LAURA WINDERSPA/team support

RIMU BODDYFull-stack Developer

PHIL CLUNIES-ROSSFreshwater Scientist

JUSTIN FAILService Delivery Manager

SAKINAH ABDULFull-stack Developer

SAM DAVIDSONJunior data scientist

KURT JOYRemote Sensing Specialist

ARTHUR MCGREGORFull-stack Developer

BRONWYN ASHBYEmployee Experience Manager

EXTRACTING VALUE FROM DATADATA DATAEVERYWHERE

• We’re getting better at collecting data• But less than 0.5% of data is analysed or has

intelligence extracted from it

EXTRACTING VALUE FROM DATADATA VISUALISATION

EXTRACTING VALUE FROM DATADATA VISUALISATION

• Empower you to tell the story of your data so that end users can understand it and make informed decisions

• Engage with your community• Visually communicate multi-level data in an

interactive, easy-to-understand way

We’ve found that smart, interactive data visualisations…

AT THE INTERSECTION OF MAPS, BI AND STORY-TELLINGGEOBI

WHAT IS GeoBI?

CASE STUDY https://rates.ecan.govt.nz/

OBJECTIVE: To enable ECan to visually tell the story about the portfolios and projects its rates’ collection funds.

Environment Canterbury rates’ tool

CASE STUDY https://rates.boprc.govt.nz/ratescalculator/

OBJECTIVE: To enable BOPRC to visually tell the story of the portfolios that rates fund, to enable rate payers to visualise their personal rates break-down and to get feedback on proposed spend.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council rates’ calculator

CASE STUDY https://geo.orbica.world/YourRates/

OBJECTIVE: To enable WDC to visually tell the story of the portfolios that rates fund, and to enable rate payers to visualise their personal rates break-down.

Waimakariri District Council “Your Rates”

https://ptadvocacy.casey.vic.gov.au/TRANSPORT GeoBI

OBJECTIVE: To deliver insight into the inequality of public transport across Melbourne’s South East

City of Casey: Public transport accessibility

OUTCOMES

➢ Customer experience➢ Engagement➢ Transparency➢ Understanding ➢ Relevance

WHAT GEOBI ACHIEVES

FEATURE EXTRACTIONGeoAI

WHAT IS GeoAI?

EARTH OBSERVATIONGeoAI

THE EARTH OBSERVATION AGE IS HERE, AND IT’S CHANGING THE WAY WE LIVE

BIG DATAGeoAI

Earth observation data – BIG data - is increasing exponentially… and fast

REAL INFORMATION, REAL TIMEGeoAI

TRANSFORMING DATA INTO INSIGHT, IN NEAR REAL TIME, CREATES VALUE

Construction progressreporting

Environmental change

Disaster management

Urban development

Market identification

FEATURE EXTRACTIONHOW BIG IS THE DATA?

CANTERBURY

FEATURE EXTRACTIONAUTOMATED METHODOLOGY

ORBICA’S SOLUTION: AUTOMATION

AI AND FEATURE EXTRACTIONDEEP LEARNING

A programme that can sense, reason, act and adapt

Algorithms whose performance improve as they are exposed to more data over time

Subset of machine learning in which multi-layered neural networks learn from vast amounts of data

TRANSFORM LOCATION DATA INTO SOLUTIONSRESULTS – Water Extraction

➢ RGB (3 band ONLY)

➢ 12,000 by 8,000 pixels.

➢ 96 million individual

pixels per image

➢ 30cm ground resolution

➢ Raw results displayed.

No clean-up or Passover

filters or geoprocessing

operations have been

applied.

TRANSFORM LOCATION DATA INTO SOLUTIONSRESULTS – Building Extraction

➢ RGB (3 band ONLY)

➢ 4,800 by 3,200 pixels

➢ 15 million individual

pixels per image

➢ 7.5cm ground resolution

➢ Raw results displayed.

No clean-up or Passover

filters or geoprocessing

operations have been

applied.

https://geo.orbica.world/AIBuilding Footprint Extraction

Surface Water Extraction https://geo.orbica.world/AI

AI AND FEATURE EXTRACTIONHOW IT WORKS

GeoAI in action

VECTOR BASED AI

Feature Engineering

• Area

• Perimeter

• Elevation (min,max,diff)

• Area to length Ratio

• No of Nodes

• Avg of polygon width

GIS Data

and

Imagery

Deep Neural Networks (AI)

TRANSFORM LOCATION DATA INTO SOLUTIONSWHAT ORBICA DOES

Training Accuracy

(LINZ)

99.00 %

(67742 / 68423)

Testing Accuracy

(Canterbury Maps)

95.82

(5896 / 6153)

CANALs vs. RIVERS

TRAINING DATA & BIAS

When is a lake a

pond and vice

versa?

FROM DRONE IMAGES TO 3D MODELSBUILD PROGRESS

BUILD

MEASURE

LEARN

FROM DRONE IMAGES TO 3D MODELSACTUAL PROGRESS

FROM DRONE IMAGES TO 3D MODELSACTUAL PROGRESS

FROM DRONE IMAGES TO 3D MODELSACTUAL PROGRESS

https://demos.orbica.world/ECAN/GrassSwipe/GeoAI AND REMOTE SENSING

OBJECTIVE: To obtain accurate estimates of ground cover percentages for living vegetation, dead vegetation and bare ground (rock and soil) in historical high-county imagery.

High-Country ground cover classification

https://demos.orbica.world/ECAN/GrassSwipe/GeoAI AND REMOTE SENSING

https://demos.orbica.world/LandMonitor/GeoAI AND REMOTE SENSING

OBJECTIVE: A web platform for observing land use change utilising Sentinel 2 satellite imagery

OrbEx

https://demos.orbica.world/LandMonitor/GeoAI

GeoAI AND REMOTE SENSING

OBJECTIVE: To define the extent of the Himalayan Tahr through probability modelling using geographic information systems, remote sensing and machine learning.

Tahr project

GeoAI

Absence Points

Presence Points

GDAL

Training Data

Machine Learning(Classify/Predict)

Python Scikit-LearnSaga GIS

Topography

Ecosystem Climate

Spectral

Model Output

Multiple Linear Regression

Logistic Regression

Random Forest

Future Observations

Geographically Weighted Regression

GDALCovariates

GeoAI

• Logistic Regression • Multiple Regression

ASK US YOUR QUESTIONSTHE FUTURE

A FUTURE OF EXPERIENCE, INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

Let the magic begin…

KURT JANSSENCEO & Founder

kurt@orbica.world