The advent of machine learning and access to readily available Earth satellite imagery is fostering big data solutions that unlock valuable insights. Earlier this year, Maxar’s DigitalGlobe hosted the 2018 Australia Sustainability Hackathon to leverage the opportunities provided by geospatial big data and high-resolution satellite imagery. When we learned of the competition, we identified an overlap between the issues that the Hackathon Challenge was addressing and the issues that we were inv...