Technology Magazine December 2020 | Page 109

109 way , it can create new images with the synthetic EO image attached .” Cabrera points to the usefulness of such technology in response to disasters such as the California wildfires , making previously obscured areas visible to build up a better picture of what is happening on the ground .
Cabrera hails the open nature of machine learning as meaning that it ’ s now accessible to far more people . “ When I first heard I was going to learn machine learning , I didn ’ t know what it was . But AI is so democratized now that I could learn a lot of information just from searching the internet . The two years that I was able to spend with a non-stop focus on machine learning and AI have meant I ’ ve been able to bring back a lot of benefits .”
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