https://spacewatch.global/tag/global-poverty/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 28 May 2020 05:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/global-poverty/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/researchers-harness-satellite-imagery-and-ai-to-help-fight-poverty-in-africa/ Thu, 28 May 2020 05:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22916 Stanford University scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across Africa.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/danish-university-uses-satellite-imagery-to-map-global-poverty/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12296 How far have we come in achieving the UN's sustainable development goals that we are committed to nationally and internationally? Yes, it can be difficult to make a global assessment of poverty and poor economic conditions, but with an eye in the sky, researchers are able to give us a very good hint of the living conditions of populations in the world's poor countries.]]>