How GPUs are Helping Map Worldwide Poverty The Official NVIDIA Blog

Editor's note: This is one in a series of profiles of five finalists for NVIDIA's 2016 Global Impact Award, which provides 150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Eradicating worldwide poverty by 2030 is the top goal on the United Nations' sustainable development agenda, published late last year. But a lack of data has frustrated efforts to measure progress toward the goal. Most of those living in extreme poverty are in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, where accurate poverty data is scarce. A small team at Stanford University is changing that, one satellite image at a time.