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[Jim Grace <jimgrace@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very nice. Thanks for the report!

Jim


On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the summary. Well done!
>>
>> Ola
>> -------
>> On 7 Jul 2015 08:39, "Lars Helge Øverland" <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>>>
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