Editor’s Choice: Aerial Imagery Analysis: Combining Crowdsourcing and Artificial Intelligence

MicroMappers combines crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to make sense of “Big Data” for Social Good. Why artificial intelligence (AI)? Because regular crowdsourcing alone is no match for Big Data. The MicroMappers platform can already be used to crowdsource the search for relevant tweets as well as pictures, videos, text messages, aerial imagery and soon satellite imagery. The next step is therefore to add artificial intelligence to this crowdsourced filtering platform. We have already done this with tweets and SMS. So we’re now turning our attention to aerial and satellite imagery.

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This content was selected for Digital Humanities Now by Editor-in-Chief Jordan Bratt based on nominations by Editors-at-Large: Roger L. Martínez-Dávila, Maria Manuel Borges, Jonathan Roberts, Patrizia Rebulla, Jeanne Gillespie, Myriam Mertens, Jonathan Reeve