2 papers
cs.CY2026
A satellite foundation model for improved wealth monitoring
Zhuo Zheng, Iván Higuera-Mendieta, Richard Lee +5
Poverty statistics guide social policy, but in many low- and middle-income countries, censuses and household surveys that collect these data are costly, infrequent, quickly outdate…
cs.CV2023
HarvestNet: A Dataset for Detecting Smallholder Farming Activity Using Harvest Piles and Remote Sensing
Jonathan Xu, Amna Elmustafa, Liya Weldegebriel +5
Small farms contribute to a large share of the productive land in developing countries. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where 80\% of farms are small (under 2 ha in size), t…