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Due to the unique tech framework, DLTEO can be explained as three things:\n\n- [ ] **A Desci platform and marketplace** (similar to Amazon, Airbnb, Uber) to monetize and process satellite (EO/GIS) data at one place\n- [ ] **A new paradigm to facilitate innovate scientific research** by helping researchers to monetize their algorithms/AI models without compromising their IP, while conducting and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner (all GIS algorithms will be uploaded by researchers on Arweave as smart contracts): GIS scientists could receive token payment as incentive once the algorithms/AI models they uploaded are called by other users (they used these smart contracts to process on-chain data so they will have to pay for it XD), which means that researchers can monetize their IP perpetually as long as their work are still cutting edge.\n- [ ] **An** (will be fully open-sourced) **infrastructure** powered by private & public satellite constellation operators (EO data) and GIS scientist DAO ([Orbuculum DAO, in construction](https://daodotorbuculum.notion.site/Orbuculum-DAO-2c5f549ad41f44c78439d89465ed8eba)), to provide data and final insights for dApps such as **web3 climate solutions**, including but not limited to:\n     1. - [ Monitoring and forecasting weather and climate] : EO data enables the tracking of weather patterns, atmospheric phenomena, and climate trends, allowing for better prediction of natural disasters, extreme weather events, and the overall impacts of climate change.\n     2. - [Carbon cycle and emissions tracking] : EO data can help quantify and monitor greenhouse gas emissions, both anthropogenic and natural, as well as track the carbon cycle, including carbon sinks such as forests and oceans.\n     3. - [Land use and land cover change] : EO data can be used to monitor deforestation, afforestation, reforestation, and urbanization, which can help inform land management policies and promote sustainable land use practices.\n     4. - [Agriculture and food security] : EO data can improve crop yield predictions, optimize irrigation systems, and monitor the impacts of climate change on food production, helping to ensure food security and sustainable agricultural practices.\n     5. - [Water resources management] : EO data can help monitor water availability, quality, and usage, allowing for better water resources management and planning in the face of increasing water scarcity due to climate change.\n     6. - [Biodiversity conservation] : EO data can assist in mapping and monitoring habitats, ecosystems, and species distributions, helping to prioritize conservation efforts and track the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.\n     7. - [Climate adaptation and resilience] : EO data can help identify vulnerable areas and populations, enabling targeted investments in climate adaptation and resilience measures, such as infrastructure improvements, early warning systems, and disaster risk reduction.\n     8. - [Renewable energy] : EO data can be used to identify optimal locations for renewable energy infrastructure, such as solar and wind farms, by analyzing factors like solar irradiance, wind patterns, and land use.\n     9. - [Coastal and ocean management] : EO data can help monitor sea level rise, ocean acidification, and other marine environmental changes, informing coastal zone management and marine conservation efforts.\n     10. - [Climate policy and international agreements] : EO data can provide an unbiased and transparent basis for tracking progress towards emissions reduction targets, ensuring compliance with international climate agreements, and informing climate policy development.\n\n\n\n## :triangular_flag_on_post: Hold on, it sounds pretty cool but how is the workflow looking like? How do you make all the claims above happen? besides how do you protect data and IPs with this new sharing or dissemination model?\n\n[![Build Status](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098226927610892288/1098227152635297955/2023-04-19_14.31.00.png)](https://dlteo.com)\n\n[![Build Status](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098226927610892288/1098227127146520668/2023-04-19_14.31.43.png)](https://dlteo.com)\n\n\n\n      \n      \nSteady lads! let's break our concept down to 4 sectors, if you read it through you will find it actually a pretty organic system. So as indicated in the pic above, there are 4 roles in the world (only 3 roles on DLTEO!):\n\n- Constellation Operators (aka Data Provider):\n  - Tasks: \n    - [ ] Collecting data from ground stations and pre-process them\n    - [ ] Encrypt data locally (if they want to make money from it, for example [Copernicus](https://www.copernicus.eu/en) or [CRESDA](https://www.cresda.com/zgzywxyyzxeng/index.html) will never encrypt their data!), using FHE ([Fully Homomorphic Encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_homomorphic_encryption))\n    - [ ] Upload encrypted data to Arweave\n    - [ ] Waiting for money...(in a nutshell lol)\n\n- GIS scientists (aka Algorithm Provider):\n  - Tasks: \n    - [ ] Use open-source satellite data to do some hard core research\n    - [ ] Implement it to algorithms or even AI models\n    - [ ] Compiled locally via our Transpiler to smart contract(s) (that is the part why we are working our ass off (NOT literally! ... yet) to get funded)\n    - [ ] Upload it to Arweave (there will be some cryptography protection here as well, hush hush)\n    - [ ] Waiting for money...(in a nutshell)\n\n- Web3 Climate dApps (aka End User):\n  - To do list: \n    - [ ] Combine Algos/Models with certain piece of encrypted data (NO decryption during the whole process!) to process data on different layers/levels -> get a encrypted and customized data product (we call it business intelligence but you know we are not good with names ^^ )\n    - [ ] Since the data product is **[somewhat a NFT](https://dlteo.com)**, paying for it is similar user experience as Opensea/Blur\n    - [ ] decrypt the data product -> check how to use this info to make the world better!\n    - [ ] ***To our best knowledge, Web3 climate solutions should only have to pay for the \"gas fee\"\uff0c\"computation cost\" as well as a bit \"IP usage fee\" \uff08it is up to the researchers to waive their charge, DLTEO can only waive commission fee for all pubic good activities\uff09***\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/V3HfWAstzEE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n\n\n- Computation Provider:\n  - Like Bitcoin Miner, they don't know what they are processing really, but they are not DLTEO's concern at the moment.\n\nIn summary, via the technology we are working on, constellation operators could upload their encrypted data on AR and allow any GIS developers to help them process the data (with token incentive) without decryption through the entire process, delivering the final business intelligence to the unprofessional end users directly. It is a significant Web3 paradigm shift\n\nby making data & algos as NFTs, simultaneously all participants (3 roles) simply need to focus on doing what they are good at without friction and barrier, DLTEO can naturally facilitate public good activities by feeding data and insights to dApp via smart contract directly (with the help of cross-chain bridges and relayers), meanwhile GIS researchers will also financially benefit from incoming climate movements and solutions.\n\nWith more and more contribution and crowd-sourcing from GIS scientists as well as constellation operators, we believe DLTEO has the potential to build a huge virtual constellation and the largest GIS algorithm/AI model on-chain library in the world.\n\n\nMoreover, we could be also a plugin for ChatGPT (or Bittensor in the future), so the current awkward answer (see pic below) will be in history :+1: \n\n[![Build Status](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098226927610892288/1098242025897336862/2023-04-19_15.41.23.png)](https://dlteo.com)\n\n\n\n\n## \ud83d\udcc8  How could you help Web3 Climate solutions exactly?\n\n\n[![Build Status](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098226927610892288/1098238443886227467/2023-04-19_15.25.13.png)](https://dlteo.com)\n\nThe picture above only indicate potential examples, not that we are working with companies above\n\nThere are a lot of potential synergies within the 10 areas mentioned above, we simply take one concrete example here:\n\nweb3 climate solutions such as carbon markets can use DLTEO as a tool to prove/verify carbon emission or credits of their client's land. For retail users of these dApps or carbon market places, with more algorithms and data available, they could simply access to ChatGPT/Bittensor plugin to use the Algorithms/AI models on Arweave to generate verifiable carbon credits.\n\n## \ud83d\udcc8  On top of benefits for researchers above, How could you help Desci further?\n\nWe're also fascinated by the recent evolution of generative AI and its possible disruptive impact across different Desci areas. Today, AI is trained on massive data sets \u2014 data is fed into the AI. \n\nThis presents challenges for researchers that want to reap the benefits of generative AI without access to the proprietary datasets and massive computing resources\n\n Also, companies that simply can't share their data with a public LLM-provider because of legal or ethical reasons (such as satellite operators, banks, insurance and healthcare companies) won\u2019t fully realize the benefits of generative AI.\n\nWe believe that is also where we could help, Web3, especially Project DLTEO can also serve as an extra layer to fix those issues. In the long run, we believe that DLTEO could evolve into a critical playground to empower AGI, \u201cNot only Bring the data to the AI researchers, but also bringing the AI researchers to the data, with the help of data scientist community\u201d That is, deploying HuggingFace-like AI algorithms (even training via federated learning between researchers and private companies) in a Web3 crowd-sourced fashion on separate, siloed and encrypted data sets, to build a community shared and based on-chain HuggingGPT. Then public LLM-providers will only be used as connector to call \"professional models\" to solve issues in the certain Desci sector and there is no point for research community as well as Desci community to worry about CloseAI or losing the competition/control of big-LLMs. \n\n --all of that can be achieved without risking any data or IP sovereignty \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n## :feet: Implementation and how to use the Grant, if you are lucky\n\n\n\nDeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, we believe that due to the limits of Gitcoin Grant as well as the scope/complexity of our work, we can not deliver too much components with the grant (also not much components of what we are building are useful for other Web3 climate solutions or Desci projects directly and immediately)\n\nTheoretically, we believe that the most reasonable work we could use the grant and also share with gitcoin community are two parts:\n\n\n1. Leaflet-Vue3, could only be shared with other GIS/GEO based Desci projects which requires professional geo informations, for the moment we did not see many of them.\n2. A new WASM runtime on Smart Weave. the current [Wrap SmartContracts](https://github.com/warp-contracts) are very well written but unfortunately it does not support Desci dApps with on-chain AI algorithms as smart contracts like us. We would like to build a WASM runtime based on [WasmEdge](https://wasmedge.org) as well as other open-source WASM runtimes to build a general WASM runtime which not only support smart contracts but also AI algorithms (thanks to the lazy evaluation method and SCP mode). In the future if we see it make sense to expand this WASM runtime to other public chains, we will also add compatibility to it.\n\nThe concrete roadmap of delivering WASM runtime will be released on the funding we could receive in the next few months.\n\n\n#### :feet: Road Map, where are we now\n\n\n| **Item**   | **status**   | **Note**  |\n|:--------:  |:---------:  |:-------:  |\n|cryptography libs|   done |under security auditing |\n|front-end  |  working on the leaflet-vue3 lib, building a new cross-platform desktop client  |     20% done      |\n|  WASM runtime  |literature research completed     |      10%        |\n| Other items|confidential for the moment |----- |\n\n## :small_blue_diamond: Team\n\n:::success\nAll of us are shy and bad at explaining stuff (as you have probably noticed) so we will just use nick name to briefly explain our team background, luckily we have sufficient knowledge and resources to pull this project through and passed ESA tender board. We also won the third place of INNOspace master OHB challenge, organized by DLR (German Aerospace Center) sorry this picture is so big...did not mean to -_-\n:::\n\n[![Build Status](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098226927610892288/1098346970801778868/INNOspace_label_results_2021-3rd-OHB.png)](https://innospace-masters.de/dlteo-the-one-stop-shop-for-the-earth-observation-data-market/#)\n\n\n1. D has background in cryptography and blockchain, he started to design this project (with a lot of stupid mistakes and attempts) while he was doing his master in information security, about 10 month later, he met I in London, 1 day before Christmas in 2019. Apart from DLTEO, he is also a part-time advisor for a crypto VC (that is where the initial funding of DLTEO from), helping around on doing tech due diligence for the incoming portfolio.\n2. I is a super energetic lad, obtained double degree from imperial college London in both math and CS at age 20, master in space study at age 21, afterwards he has been involved with several space startups (like all space full stack engineers, he loves new ventures) and published 2 papers on International Astronautical Congress (IAC)\uff0cInternational Astronautical Federation (IAF). Most importantly, during the breakout of covid-19, he did not gave up on DLTEO, together with D they applied incubation/funding from 5 space agencies of different countries to get a yes in ESA BIC Austria (it caused us almost 1 year).\n3. Then we have P joined us in 2021 after his exiting previous startup, helping around as managing director as well as random BD/operation stuff, he is an alumni of Techstar London\n4. Q joined same time with P, her background is financial modeling (helped us a lot! super important skillsets) and all financial stuff, she has worked for few top investment banks in Europe, Hong Kong and Beijing.\n5. last but not the least, we have Y, he is currently an assistant professor in UK, advising few PhDs students in the area of LLVM compiler(this is also part of reason why we are confident that we can make this project work) at the moment. \n6. We have a genius level smart contract developer, he is temporarily on leave because he needs to study (yes he is only 18 like @transmissions11, and he is also one of the few people who got admitted into IVY league directly from south America, I would say it is same possibility to find a unicorn)\n\nFairly speaking we are not a super-star team, but we have enough knowledges, connections and resources now, most importantly, we are a persistent team, we never gave up this project even when there were temptations in the bull market and frustration in the bear market. When everyone was busy in DeFi summer, we were busy with getting rejected over and over by space agencies, it literally took us a year to make this project solid enough for ESA experts. We believe that Desci could not only be a grater good, but also the next foundation of human kind.\n\nOh we can't help but brag about our advisor with sincere respect: [Prof. Thomas Blaschke](https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=kMroJzUAAAAJ&hl=de) he is not only member of ESA advisor board, but also one of the most influential GIS researchers in the world, with h-index of 78.\n\n## :triangular_flag_on_post: Contact us\n\n:::warning\nWe are extremely keen to seek community ambassadors to help us with marketing, PR, community building as well as organizing incoming DAO. if you have some spare time to kill and interested in what we are building, please please say hi to nohrplease@dlteo.com or nohrplease@orbuculum.xyz, both works! for other inquiries, please kindly send email to info@dlteo.com or info@orbuculum.xyz, we are more than happy to answer your question(as long as we can).\n\nFor the record, due to limited budget, we have allocated all of our funding to devs therefore unfortunately can not afford to pay you any salary (but we probably should be able to provide some compensation for some food/flights at the moment I guess :(  )\n\nAlso we are too poor to sponsor you working permit as well, but hey we are trying our best to get funding! hopefully we could work in the same office one day!\n:::\n\n\n## \ud83d\udcac Open Questions\n| Question                                        | Answer      |\n| ----------------------------------------------- |:-----------:|\n| 1. Could this project be applied to other desci projects such as biology and drug development?    |yes, but we would have to raise more funding to build a entire new front-end on top of current smart contracts, on top of it, we would need to assemble a bigger team with backgrounds in computational biology/ bioengineering etc  |\n| 2.how much are you targeting to raise from gitcoin? |it is a hard time for all desci/climate projects we believe so it would be nice if the grants we get here is more than our wasted gas fee lol\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "DLTEO GmbH", "projectTwitter": "DLT_EO"}, "recipient": "0x75E1d75AdC9D7aF059F3dE5d8865C68B20C67cEA"}}