GAIA Satellite Project
July 30, 2025
Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Animals (GAIA): Developing an Operational System for Detecting Marine Mammals in Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
GAIA Satellite Project
Public source code for the GAIA (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Animals) web application, NOAA’s cloud-based platform for ingesting, processing, organizing, and annotating very high-resolution satellite imagery in support of marine wildlife monitoring and satellite-based protected species research. Developed to support scalable expert review workflows and future AI-assisted detection efforts.
Microsoft / whales
An open-source active learning pipeline for identifying whales in high-resolution satellite imagery. The repository includes an “interesting point” detector and human-in-the-loop labeling workflow designed to surface candidate whale detections and accelerate expert annotation of satellite imagery for marine mammal monitoring.
Microsoft / satellite-imagery-labeling-tool
A lightweight open-source web interface for creating and sharing vector annotations over satellite and aerial imagery. Supports polygon and line labeling workflows and serves as a flexible general-purpose geospatial annotation toolkit for remote sensing and machine learning applications.