Imagine a world where we can use satellite images to help find better access to clean water, prevent poaching of wildlife, predict storms more efficiently, optimize traffic patterns more readily, and inform human behaviors to mitigate the spread of disease.
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Thanks to a marked increase of satellites in orbit, we will be able to capture images – and the information contained within – of nearly every place on Earth, every day by 2017. However, our ability to analyze datasets of these images has not advanced as quickly. Changes from day to day in images of the same location are subtle, can be hard to detect, and are difficult to understand in terms of their significance.
In this competition,
[Draper](http://www.draper.com/)
provides a unique dataset of images taken at the same locations over 5 days. Kagglers are challenged to predict the chronological order of the photos taken at each location. Accurately doing so could uncover approaches that have a global impact on commerce, science, and humanitarian works.