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Toponym-Assisted Map Georeferencing: Evaluating The Use Of Toponyms For The Digitization Of Map Collections, Karim Bahgat, Daniel Runfola
Toponym-Assisted Map Georeferencing: Evaluating The Use Of Toponyms For The Digitization Of Map Collections, Karim Bahgat, Daniel Runfola
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A great deal of information is contained within archival maps—ranging from historic political boundaries, to mineral resources, to the locations of cultural landmarks. There are many ongoing efforts to preserve and digitize historic maps so that the information contained within them can be stored and analyzed efficiently. A major barrier to such map digitizing efforts is that the geographic location of each map is typically unknown and must be determined through an often slow and manual process known as georeferencing. To mitigate the time costs associated with the georeferencing process, this paper introduces a fully automated method based on map …
Predicting Road Quality Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Transfer Learning Approach, Ethan Brewer, Jason Lin, Peter Kemper, John Hennin, Daniel Runfola
Predicting Road Quality Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Transfer Learning Approach, Ethan Brewer, Jason Lin, Peter Kemper, John Hennin, Daniel Runfola
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Recognizing the importance of road infrastructure to promote human health and economic development, actors around the globe are regularly investing in both new roads and road improvements. However, in many contexts there is a sparsity—or complete lack—of accurate information regarding existing road infrastructure, challenging the effective identification of where investments should be made. Previous literature has focused on overcoming this gap through the use of satellite imagery to detect and map roads. In this piece, we extend this literature by leveraging satellite imagery to estimate road quality and concomitant information about travel speed. We adopt a transfer learning approach in …