From eccb769e8d18609c41937870c7874e99de2f81a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Ripley Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 20:03:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update field imagery page --- content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md b/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md index 30dce4c..75ee2ee 100644 --- a/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md +++ b/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md @@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ title: 📸 Field Imagery weight: 4 --- -### The Mission +## The Mission + Commercial street-level imagery is often locked behind restrictive licenses, proprietary viewers, and paywalls, making it inaccessible for researchers, urban planners, and the general public. We are building a sovereign, open-source alternative for Canada. By self-hosting a **[Panoramax](https://panoramax.fr/)** instance, we provide a decentralized platform where field imagery is treated as a public utility: fully downloadable, API-accessible, and privacy-compliant. --- -### The Infrastructure +## The Infrastructure + Our field imagery pipeline is built on the **Panoramax** ecosystem, a federated open-source alternative to Google Street View. Instead of relying on centralized corporate servers, we operate a sovereign instance that guarantees data permanence and open access. * **Platform**: Self-hosted Panoramax instance running on our internal infrastructure. @@ -19,17 +21,19 @@ Our field imagery pipeline is built on the **Panoramax** ecosystem, a federated --- -### The Processing Pipeline +## The Processing Pipeline + We treat field imagery as a data engineering challenge, ensuring "time-to-insight" is minimized for downstream users. -1. **Ingestion**: Raw imagery is captured using diverse hardware (ex. 360° cameras, mobile rigs, meta glasses, etc.) and ingested by our systems. -2. **Privacy & Anonymization**: Before publication, all imagery undergoes a rigorous privacy scrub. We utilize automated detection pipelines to blur faces and license plates, ensuring compliance with Canadian privacy standards while maintaining data utility. -3. **Standardization**: Images are processed into standardized, web-optimized tiles for the viewer and high-resolution archives for analysis. -4. **Metadata Extraction**: We extract and normalize/strip EXIF and GPS telemetry, indexing it into a **STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog)** compliant API. +1. **Ingestion**: Raw imagery is captured using diverse hardware (ex. 360° cameras, mobile rigs, meta glasses, etc.) and ingested by our systems. +2. **Privacy & Anonymization**: Before publication, all imagery undergoes a rigorous privacy scrub. We utilize automated detection pipelines to blur faces and license plates, ensuring compliance with Canadian privacy standards while maintaining data utility. +3. **Standardization**: Images are processed into standardized, web-optimized tiles for the viewer and high-resolution archives for analysis. +4. **Metadata Extraction**: We extract and normalize/strip EXIF and GPS telemetry, indexing it into a **STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog)** compliant API. --- -### Data Products +## Data Products + Unlike commercial platforms that only offer a "view" of the data, we provide the **data itself**. * **API Access**: Full programmatic access via the Panoramax REST API for querying imagery by location, date, or sequence.