Red Cross: Satellite Imagery for Disaster Assessment
Leverage modern machine learning and AI techniques to rapidly analyze the before and after satellite images of affected areas to assess damage.
Reddit Map
Reddit Map is an open-source tool that makes navigating Reddit data easier by displaying clusters of communities with overlapping community members.
Save the Whales
When whales are encountered near the surface of the ocean, it’s useful to be able to quickly assess their health for conservation and evaluation purposes. As part of our Data Science for the Common Good program, Master’s students Chhandak Bagchi and Gizem Cicekli developed a tool for identifying a whale from an aerial image.
Supporting Electric Vehicle Planning in African Cities
In partnership with the World Resources Institute, a global research organization that works on issues such as energy efficiency and climate change, we examined vehicle usage in developing countries. There is often a lack of critical data for developing countries on vehicle purchases and usage patterns, which is a significant gap in sustainability research.
The Nature Conservancy: Animal Image Detection for Wildlife Cameras
Use a computer-vision algorithm to automatically detect whether or not a photograph contains an animal for The Nature Conservancy to use with trail-cam footage.
Georeferencing of Historical Imagery
Aerial images can provide useful insights into how land and waterways change over time. To be able to compare images from different sources and time periods, georeferencing (identifying the exact latitude and longitude) is required.