2020/06/25 by Federico Bayle, Bayle, Federico, Damian E. Silvani +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Impact of Light on Environment and Health #Land Use and Ecosystem Services #Latin American Urban Studies #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Regional Development and Innovation #cs.CY #cs.LG
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.14490
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ACM SIGKDD 2020 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
arxiv created 2020/06/25 · openalex publication_date 2020/06/25 · arxiv updated 2020/06/26 · openalex created_date 2022/07/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Data collection through censuses is conducted every 10 years on average in Latin America, making it difficult to monitor the growth and support needed by communities living in these settlements. Conducting a field survey requires logistical resources to be able to do it exhaustively. The increasing availability of open data, high-resolution satellite images, and free software to process them allow us to be able to do so in a scalable way based on the analysis of these sources of information. This case study shows the collaboration between Dymaxion Labs and the NGO Techo to employ machine learning techniques to create the first informal settlements census of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.