Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Revealing influencing factors on global waste distribution via deep-learning based dumpsite detection from satellite imagery

  • Xian Sun,
  • Dongshuo Yin,
  • Fei Qin,
  • Hongfeng Yu,
  • Wanxuan Lu,
  • Fanglong Yao,
  • Qibin He,
  • Xingliang Huang,
  • Zhiyuan Yan,
  • Peijin Wang,
  • Chubo Deng,
  • Nayu Liu,
  • Yiran Yang,
  • Wei Liang,
  • Ruiping Wang,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Naoto Yokoya,
  • Ronny Hänsch,
  • Kun Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37136-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Dumpsites are hard to locate globally. Here the authors apply deep networks to satellite images to provide an effective and low-cost way to detect dumpsites with the new method saving more than 96.8% of the manual time with a strong sensitivity to dumpsites.