Event detection from novel data sources: Leveraging satellite imagery alongside GPS traces

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10890v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:59:37 GMT
• Title: Event detection from novel data sources: Leveraging satellite imagery alongside GPS traces
• Authors: Ekin Ugurel, Steffen Coenen, Minda Zhou Chen, Cynthia Chen
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel data fusion methodology integrating satellite imagery with privacy-enhanced mobile data to augment the event inference task. The expected use cases for our methodology include small-scale disaster detection (i.e., tornadoes, wildfires, and floods) in rural regions, search and rescue operation augmentation for lost hikers in remote wilderness areas, and identification of active conflict areas and population displacement in war-torn states.
• Score: 0.9075220953694432
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Rapid identification and response to breaking events, particularly those that pose a threat to human life such as natural disasters or conflicts, is of paramount importance. The prevalence of mobile devices and the ubiquity of network connectivity has generated a massive amount of temporally- and spatially-stamped data. Numerous studies have used mobile data to derive individual human mobility patterns for various applications. Similarly, the increasing number of orbital satellites has made it easier to gather high-resolution images capturing a snapshot of a geographical area in sub-daily temporal frequency. We propose a novel data fusion methodology integrating satellite imagery with privacy-enhanced mobile data to augment the event inference task, whether in real-time or historical. In the absence of boots on the ground, mobile data is able to give an approximation of human mobility, proximity to one another, and the built environment. On the other hand, satellite imagery can provide visual information on physical changes to the built and natural environment. The expected use cases for our methodology include small-scale disaster detection (i.e., tornadoes, wildfires, and floods) in rural regions, search and rescue operation augmentation for lost hikers in remote wilderness areas, and identification of active conflict areas and population displacement in war-torn states. Our implementation is open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/ekinugurel/SatMobFusion.

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