Using satellite imagery to understand and promote sustainable development

M Burke, A Driscoll, DB Lobell, S Ermon - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Accurate and comprehensive measurements of a range of sustainable
development outcomes are fundamental inputs into both research and policy. For instance …

A review of explainable AI in the satellite data, deep machine learning, and human poverty domain

O Hall, M Ohlsson, T Rögnvaldsson - Patterns, 2022 - cell.com
Recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep machine learning have created a step
change in how to measure human development indicators, in particular asset-based …

Wilds: A benchmark of in-the-wild distribution shifts

PW Koh, S Sagawa, H Marklund… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Distribution shifts—where the training distribution differs from the test distribution—can
substantially degrade the accuracy of machine learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild …

[HTML][HTML] Energy poverty prediction in the United Kingdom: A machine learning approach

D Al Kez, A Foley, ZK Abdul, DF Del Rio - Energy Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy poverty affects billions worldwide, including people in developed and developing
countries. Identifying those living in energy poverty and implementing successful solutions …

A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction: Implications for development research and applications

O Hall, F Dompae, I Wahab… - Journal of International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of artificial intelligence is seeing the increased application of satellite imagery to
analyse poverty in its various manifestations. This nascent but rapidly growing intersection of …

A comparison of machine learning approaches for identifying high-poverty counties: Robust features of DMSP/OLS night-time light imagery

G Li, Z Cai, X Liu, J Liu, S Su - International journal of remote …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the present study is to demonstrate that high-poverty counties and robust
classification features can be identified by machine learning approaches using only …

Satellite image and machine learning based knowledge extraction in the poverty and welfare domain

O Hall, M Ohlsson, T Rögnvaldsson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.01068, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have created a step change
in how to measure human development indicators, in particular asset based poverty. The …

What matters in the new field of machine learning and satellite imagery-based poverty predictions? A review with relevance for potential downstream applications and …

O Hall, F Dompae, I Wahab, FM Dzanku - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10568, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper reviews the state of the art in satellite and machine learning based poverty
estimates and finds some interesting results. The most important factors correlated to the …

[PDF][PDF] Wilds: A benchmark of in-the-wild distribution shifts

H Marklund, SM Xie, M Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Distribution shifts—where the training distribution differs from the test distribution—can
substantially degrade the accuracy of machine learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild …

Seeing What We Can't: Evaluating implicit biases in deep learning satellite imagery models trained for poverty prediction

J O'Brien - 2023 - scholarworks.wm.edu
Previous studies have sought to use Convolutional Neural Networks for regional estimation
of poverty levels. However, there is limited research into possible implicit biases in deep …