2 papers
cs.CV2026
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…
cs.LG2025
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…