4 papers
Beyond Point Predictions: Uncertainty-Aware Satellite Poverty Mapping for Public Policy
Markus B. Pettersson, James Bailie, Mohammad Kakooei +2
Despite their critical importance for policy and research, high-resolution poverty data remain limited across much of Africa. Machine learning (ML) with earth observation (EO) imag…
A High Resolution Urban and Rural Settlement Map of Africa Using Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery
Mohammad Kakooei, James Bailie, Markus B. Pettersson +3
Accurate and consistent mapping of urban and rural areas is crucial for sustainable development, spatial planning, and policy design. It is particularly important in simulating the…
Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference Without Additional Ground Truth Data: "One Map, Many Trials" in Satellite-Driven Poverty Analysis
Markus B. Pettersson, Connor T. Jerzak, Adel Daoud
Machine learning models trained on Earth observation data, such as satellite imagery, have demonstrated significant promise in predicting household-level wealth indices, enabling t…
Leveraging Compact Satellite Embeddings and Graph Neural Networks for Large-Scale Poverty Mapping
Markus B. Pettersson, Adel Daoud
Accurate, fine-grained poverty maps remain scarce across much of the Global South. While Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) provide high-quality socioeconomic data, their spatial…