Deep Learning Indaba 2023

Let's map Africa! Intro to Geospatial Machine Learning

14:00-16:00 pm September 7th, 2023  

overview:

In this tutorial we introduce the field of geospatial machine learning by first going over the geospatial data primitives then solving a machine learning problem in an "end-to-end" fashion.

We aim to cover the following:

1. Introduction to geospatial data: vector and raster data primitives.

2. Problem framing: introducing the problem that we are going to solve.

3. Approach 1: Tabular Learning with LightGBM.

   • Data acquisition and preprocessing: we will get the data and preprocess it for machine learning.

   • Model fitting: we will fit a model to the data and conduct hyperparameter search.

   • Model evaluation: we will evaluate the model on the test data.

   • Inference: we will predict the output for the test data.

4. Approach 2: Deep Learning with a Sequence-to-One model.

Topics:

Content: Geospatial Data Analysis, Computer Vision, Tabular Data.

Level: Beginner, Intermediate