Mapping land use - can machine learning help?? - KAIINOS

Monitoring land use changes are important to identify new buildings coming up, crop lands converting to plantations, water bodies getting dumped with land fills etc. Manually monitoring these changes is cumbersome and costly. We are trying to use machine learning and satellite data and check whether these changes can be identified. This blog is about our effort and some preliminary results. NASA and ESA have launched satellites which help us to try out our algorithms. For works like this we use ESA's Sentinel 2 satellite which is the best high resolution satellite data available in open domain.