Targeting Villages for Rural Development Using Satellite Image Analysis

Big Data

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-53

  Varshney, Kush R ^a,b   Chen, George H ^c   Abelson, Brian ^a,d   Nowocin, Kendall ^c   Sakhrani, Vivek ^e   Xu, Ling ^e   Spatocco, Brian L ^f  

^a DataKind DataCorps   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d Enigma   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

data mining; machine learning; predictive analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991783905     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2014.0061     Document Type: Article

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