Effective planning and response to humanitarian crises depend on the knowledge of the local situation and the spatial distribution of populations. However, fine-scale population maps are often unavailable and not easy to generate. Especially in contexts affected by violence and conflict, maps and census information are often incomplete or outdated.
The project aims to estimate local size and density, as well as related information, such as settlement type and population changes, from satellite images and social media posts and integrate them into detailed, spatially resolved population maps. More information can be found in this paper.
ETHZ PI: Prof. Konrad Schindler, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, D-BAUG;
EPFL PI: Prof. Devis Tuia, Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory, EPFL
Partners: Thao Ton That Whelan, ICRC and Ferda Ofli, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Photo: ICRC
