Big Pixel Initiative

The Big Pixel Initiative is developing geospatial capacity to address our world's greatest challenges at scale.

This initiative is designing research methods for scalable satellite image ingestion, processing, computing and visualization for the next generation of global change research in geospatial big data. We are developing tools in computer vision, machine learning, GIS, remote sensing and crowd-sourcing.

Applications

More and more, we have the need for dynamic interactive analysis; fewer pre-digested static results and more interactive visualizations.

The design for this initiative is growing a living, learning collaborative lab for researchers to perform inherently multidisciplinary research, which will be driven by the evident need of our partners to create this space, cultivating design and function together.

Who We Are

The Big Pixel Initiative is housed at the Peter F. Cowhey Center on Global Transformation (CCGT), a leading research center at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy.