Orbital Insights
Orbital Insights is my attempt to take something as vast and technical as satellite data and make it understandable, useful, and even personal. I wanted a platform that anyone could use—whether you’re a scientist, a student, or just someone curious about what’s happening to our planet. Orbital Insights lets you actually see change over time and understand why it’s happening. The heart of the platform is a dual-map viewer. You can pick a place and compare two points in time, side by side. Then, with just a click, you can switch layers: natural color to see cities expand or lakes shrink, vegetation health to watch forests recover or disappear, water levels to trace floods and droughts, false-color fire maps to spot burn scars, or even air pollution levels drifting over industrial zones. But what really makes it powerful is that it doesn’t stop at “here’s what changed.” An AI report pulls everything together—imagery, data, history, and even news—and turns it into a story. You get a summary, possible causes, numbers to back it up, and links to sources so you can keep digging. It’s like having a research assistant for the planet. What makes this project even more personal for me is how it was built. I created Orbital Insights on a tiny laptop with only 3GB of RAM. Every crash, every painfully slow build, was a test of patience. But I refused to give up. I’ve been teaching myself everything since finishing high school three years ago in Nigeria, and now living in The Gambia without sponsorship or a path to university. Technology is my lifeline—it’s my only way forward. For me, Orbital Insights is proof that even with limited resources, passion and persistence can build something meaningful. With better tools, I believe I can take it further, polish it, and make it a platform that really helps people understand and respond to the changes happening to our planet. This isn’t just about code—it’s about potential, resilience, and a vision for something bigger than myself.
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"It looked really cool, a really original idea with cool implementations. I find it hard to mark higher just as the video was 7 minutes with a 2-minute deadline, but it was super cool. I would have loved to see more of the remote agents."
omni georgio
"This project seems very original and practical. To be honest, I just really like it a lot. I think the presentation is longer than 5 minutes, that is an insane amount for a proposal, right? So I would really recommend you to stick to an elevator pitch (2-5 minutes tops). Even for this hackathon, the guideline is to be within 2 minutes, which is also quite generous given the fact that the elevator pitch can quite often be even faster. Provided that I think your hackathon is sorry your project is still a very fun one. I like it. I think it's good that you give so much, you know, sources. I would maybe also improve the UI a little bit - it's not always clear which maps I'm choosing from and how to navigate that. But yeah, maybe some presets would be nice, you know, like an onboarding form. Pretty cool in general, good job. Congrats on finishing the hackathon with such a nice project. "
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