Very nice. Thanks for the report! Jim
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very cool indeed - and Malaria eradication could well turn out to be our > next killer app, given what is now happening in Zim and the already > extensive experience from what Jason and others have done especially in > Zambia, but also Ethiopia, Senegal (and Nigeria?). Furthermore, we have > recently been contacted by ADB around Malaria in the Mekong basin. > > Given that google is already working on forestry, we should perhaps also > try to link this work to Robin Martens from http://www.sher.be/en/ ? > > Knut > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <ol...@ifi.uio.no> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the summary. Well done! >> >> Ola >> ------- >> On 7 Jul 2015 08:39, "Lars Helge Øverland" <larshe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> quick summary from California trip. Jan and I went on a 3 day "expert >>> meeting" at google. First part was training on the earth engine platform >>> <https://earthengine.google.org/#intro>. This is a cloud computational >>> platform that makes available a ton of satellite images e.g. from the >>> landsat <http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/> program and allows you to do >>> analysis like reducing, aggregating, filtering and combining multiple >>> images into layers on google data centers. Lots of researches from US and >>> European agencies and universities that made presentations on how they use >>> it. >>> >>> Second part was a discussions around how this engine could be more >>> useful for researches and "tool makers". Google has committed to using 1% >>> of their resources for "good". So far the earth engine has been used mostly >>> for forestry / deforestation. They now want to apply it within health. The >>> most typical use-case seems to be mapping of risk of malaria and other >>> epidemic prone diseases. We met engineers from the Google maps, earth, >>> earth engine teams who wanted feedback on which features would be useful in >>> the health domain. We also got to present - it was cool to present DHIS 2 >>> in the middle of Googleplex ;) >>> >>> In our group there was people from health metrics and evaluation >>> <http://www.healthdata.org/>, UCSF <https://www.ucsf.edu/>, Gates >>> found, CHAI, Oxford uni, RTI, Carter center >>> <http://www.cartercenter.org/index.html>, Uni of Pittsburgh >>> <http://www.pitt.edu/>. There was actually lots of talk of DHIS 2, many >>> people knew about it and it seems Google might develop a DHIS 2-compatible >>> import tool for the earth engine. >>> >>> Last day we met with Hugh Sturrock, Adam Bennet, Roly Gosling at UCSF >>> (very nice people). We will now work together on an app for mapping of >>> malaria risk, probably in zim. The idea is interesting - it will detect >>> malaria risk based on rainfall, elevation, vegetation, moisture (this data >>> can be derived from satellite images or come from other data sets in the >>> earth engine), then overlay it with household visit data collected using >>> the new DHIS 2 tracker android app (data on house spraying, bednets, >>> prophylaxis). This should tell you exactly which areas are at risk, which >>> houses have not yet been sprayed in last x months, and hence where you need >>> to go next. UCSF will hire vizzuality <http://www.vizzuality.com/> to >>> do the app coding. This means we need to feed data into earth engine so >>> google will support on that end. Jan and I have discussed to integrate >>> earth engine satellite images directly as a layer in GIS as well. >>> >>> There is still an "if" in that UCSF must get their funding request >>> approved by gates, but otherwise this looks pretty promising. >>> >>> Lars >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core >>> Post to : dhis2-devs-core@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> > > > -- > Knut Staring > Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo > Norway: +4791880522 > Skype: knutstar > http://dhis2.org > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core > Post to : dhis2-devs-core@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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