Turns out everything has coordinates.
Building open-source tools and research at the intersection of remote sensing, disaster risk, and urban resilience.
A pre-disaster urban resilience auditing platform for city planners. Analyzes road network vulnerability and identifies critical failure points before disaster strikes -- not after.
A daily geospatial news briefing with an agenda -- finding the ground truth in geospatial news. Curated by AI, filtered by taste, delivered with a slight edge.
Jerrod Lessel is a senior geospatial analyst and remote sensing researcher with deep experience in production-scale satellite imagery analysis, climate monitoring, and spatial modeling.
Previously at Gro Intelligence for eight years, building crop classification systems, flood and drought monitoring pipelines, and remote sensing methodology across dozens of countries using Google Earth Engine. Former fellow with NASA DEVELOP and research staff at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Currently a Senior Geospatial Analyst and Modeler at Caltrans.