Eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 is the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Experts usually measure poverty by using census data and household ...

From space, at night, mild and extreme poverty look the same—dark. Burke and his team at Stanford think they have found a way to improve the study of satellite images using machine learning.

A new AI tool can track poverty levels in African villages over time by scanning satellite images for signs of economic well-being. The tool searches the images for indicators of development, such ...