Developing Piksel covers a lot of ground, from infrastructure and applications to processing satellite imagery. In recent months, with a small team and limited capacity, the Piksel team has started leaning on AI agents to speed up development that was previously done by hand. Unlike an ordinary chatbot, an AI agent can carry out a sequence of tasks using the tools available to it, so it can work through multi-step jobs more effectively.
Much of Indonesia sits under heavy cloud cover, which makes analysis from satellite imagery difficult. GeoMAD was built to get around that. It is a composite image derived from the median pixel value of satellite scenes over a set period, an approach that cuts through the cloud and yields a more consistent picture of the land surface. That makes it a valuable source for multi-temporal analysis, from tracking land-cover change to studying regional development and the environment.
Indonesia's coastline is among the most dynamic parts of the country. Erosion, sedimentation, coastal development, and tectonic activity all reshape it, and those shifts reach the communities that live along the shore. Piksel offers coastline-change analysis that lets users trace this movement over time, measured against decades of satellite data.
To strengthen Indonesia's geospatial ecosystem, BIG keeps building partnerships with universities working on geospatial technology. One of those partnerships is an internship, and this round brought in three geodetic engineering students from Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP). Over two months, starting 29 June 2026, they worked directly with satellite data and the latest geospatial tools.
BIG staff spent the week of 9–13 February 2026 at the University of Sydney learning to process satellite imagery on the Piksel platform. The Technical Earth Observation Workshop was run with Geoscience Australia (GA), which brought in the expert developers behind Digital Earth Australia.
Longsoran yang terjadi di Kampung Pondok Balik, Kecamatan Ketol, Kabupaten Aceh Tengah, merupakan fenomena gerakan tanah yang terus berkembang dan menjadi perhatian karena dampaknya terhadap lingkungan serta infrastruktur di sekitarnya. Perubahan bentang lahan yang berlangsung secara progresif telah membentuk area longsoran yang semakin luas dari waktu ke waktu. Untuk memantau perkembangan tersebut, dilakukan analisis menggunakan citra satelit Sentinel-2 yang diakses melalui platform Piksel yang dikembangkan oleh Direktorat Pemetaan Tematik, Badan Informasi Geospasial.
