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[Greg Rowles <greg.rowles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations Lars and the DHIS2 team!

Just wondering if and when the google project begins - is there any
possibility that some of us could be exposed to or participate in those
developments?

Greg

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Halvdan Grelland <halvdanhg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Very cool!
>
> 2015-07-07 8:39 GMT+02:00 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> 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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