Satellite images and deep learning key to poverty fight
Editor,
RE: “How satellite images and deep learning can fight global poverty” (The New Times, August 20, 2016). I totally disagree with this article. Satellite images cannot in any way help in fighting poverty. What they can do though is helping foreigners who have never set their foot in Africa clearly see the divide that exists between the rich and the poor in underdeveloped countries.
An abandoned village. Machine-learning algorithm can predict the locations of impoverished areas and help relief workers to know where people are living in poverty to bring them the aid they need. (Net photo)