Detecting Population and Built Environment Change from Space and their Impacts on Buried Utility Assets

卫星和地球观测技术的进步正在创造新的方法，我们可以用这种方法来研究人口与他们生活的地方之间的相互关系。这为通过建筑环境变化的视角研究人类动力学创造了巨大的机会；并为那些专注于在这个十字路口提供服务的公司提供了一套新的参照点。MGISS总部设在利物浦城地区，其愿景是成为利用地理空间技术、位置智能和先进分析来提高关键基础设施(如埋在地下的公用事业(水、天然气、电力、电信)和主要交通网络)的长期弹性的全球领导者。该项目的核心将涉及将机器学习和人工智能(例如分类/光谱混合模型)应用于卫星数据，以提取关于人类活动变化的信息，此外还将受益于来自MGISS的洞察力、现有的资产所有者数据、环境数据和其他辅助来源，如规划申请和审批。从实质上讲，该项目可能会探索各种可观察到的变化，如基础设施发展(已规划和正在进行)以及确定过去、即将和未来潜在供应中断影响的可能性。

Advances in Satellite and Earth observation technology are creating new ways in which we can study the interrelationships between populations and those places within which they live. This is creating great opportunities for the study of human dynamics through the lens of changes to the built environment; and provides a new set of reference points for those companies focused on delivery of services at this intersection. MGISS are based within Liverpool City Region and have a vision to be a global leader in the use of Geospatial technology, location intelligence and advanced analytics to improve the long-term resilience of critical infrastructure such as buried utilities (water, gas, electricity, telco) and also major transportation networks. The core of this project will involve the application of machine learning and AI (e.g. Classification / spectral mixture models) to satellite data to extract information on changes in human activity, and will additionally benefit from the close coupling of insight from MGISS, available asset owner data, environmental data and other ancillary sources such as planning application and approvals. Substantively this project will likely explore various observable changes such as infrastructure development (planned and in progress) and potential for identification of past, imminent, and future potential supply interruption impacts.