Satellite imagery can aid development projects

Projects that target aid toward villages and rural areas in the developing world often face time-consuming challenges, even at the most basic level of figuring out where the most appropriate sites are for pilot programs or deployment of new systems such as solar-power for regions that have no access to electricity. Time-consuming field studies are needed to locate suitable sites.Now, a team of graduate students at MIT and data scientists have come up with a way of automating parts of that evaluation process, by developing a software that can identify houses from readily-available satellite imagery. It will be saving considerable time by avoiding the need for sending teams from village to village.Can you imagine any other use for this new technology? via

Satellite imagery can aid development projects

Projects that target aid toward villages and rural areas in the developing world often face time-consuming challenges, even at the most basic level of figuring out where the most appropriate sites are for pilot programs or deployment of new systems such as solar-power for regions that have no access to electricity. Time-consuming field studies are needed to locate suitable sites.

Now, a team of graduate students at MIT and data scientists have come up with a way of automating parts of that evaluation process, by developing a software that can identify houses from readily-available satellite imagery. It will be saving considerable time by avoiding the need for sending teams from village to village.

Can you imagine any other use for this new technology?

Submitted March 28, 2015 at 08:10PM by asker007

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