04-800-AB   Machine Learning for Earth Observation

Location: Africa

Units: 12

Semester Offered: Spring

Course description

Satellite data needs special skills to process, visualize, and analyze. In this course, students will be introduced to different GIS data models. The course will introduce some of the advanced techniques for collecting, processing, and analyzing remote sensing data. It will also discuss some of the techniques in geospatial data fusion and introduce the concept of transfer learning in geospatial data analytics.

Students will apply ML techniques and other geospatial data analytics tools in practical and relevant applications such as assessing land use and land cover, change detection, crop disease detection, etc.

Learning objectives

In this class, students will learn:

  • Different GIS data models and their advantages and disadvantages
  • Techniques for efficiently encoding, manipulating, and querying geospatial data
  • How to design, use, and implement algorithms dealing with geospatial data
  • How to use ML techniques to generate insight from satellite data in practical applications

Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to apply ML techniques to generate insight from geospatial data in a wide range of applications.

Content details

The coverage of this course includes:

  • Introduction to GIS and satellite data
  • Geometric algorithms for spatiotemporal data processing and analysis
  • Scalable algorithms and representations for big geospatial data
  • Geospatial data fusion
  • Introduction transfer learning
  • Feature Extraction Techniques
  • Land Use/Cover Mapping
  • Change Detection

Faculty

Moise Busogi