4 papers
Geographic distribution of the global agricultural workforce every decade for the years 2000-2100
Naia Ormaza-Zulueta, Steve Miller, Zia Mehrabi
Agricultural workers play a vital role in the global economy and food security by cultivating, transporting, and processing food for populations worldwide. Despite their importance…
Mapping waterways worldwide with deep learning
Matthew Pierson, Zia Mehrabi
Waterways shape earth system processes and human societies, and a better understanding of their distribution can assist in a range of applications from earth system modeling to hum…
Deep learning waterways for rural infrastructure development
Matthew Pierson, Zia Mehrabi
Surprisingly a number of Earth's waterways remain unmapped, with a significant number in low and middle income countries. Here we build a computer vision model (WaterNet) to learn…
Satellite monitoring uncovers progress but large disparities in doubling crop yields
Katie Fankhauser, Evan Thomas, Zia Mehrabi
High-resolution satellite-based crop yield mapping offers enormous promise for monitoring progress towards the SDGs. Across 15,000 villages in Rwanda we uncover areas that are on a…