Targeting Villages for Rural Development Using Satellite Image Analysis

@article{Varshney2015TargetingVF,
  title={Targeting Villages for Rural Development Using Satellite Image Analysis},
  author={Kush R. Varshney and George H. Chen and Brian Abelson and Kendall Nowocin and Vivek Sakhrani and Ling Xu and Brian L. Spatocco},
  journal={Big data},
  year={2015},
  volume={3 1},
  pages={
          41-53
        }
}
Satellite imagery is a form of big data that can be harnessed for many social good applications, especially those focusing on rural areas. In this article, we describe the common problem of selecting sites for and planning rural development activities as informed by remote sensing and satellite image analysis. Effective planning in poor rural areas benefits from information that is not available and is difficult to obtain at any appreciable scale by any means other than algorithms for… 
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