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，使我们能够研究人口与他们居住的地方之间的相互关系。这为通过建筑环境的变化来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交叉点提供服务的公司提供了一套新的参考点。MGISS总部位于利物浦市区，其愿景是成为使用地理空间技术、位置智能和高级分析的全球领导者，以提高关键基础设施的长期弹性，如地埋公用事业（水、气、电、电信）和主要交通网络。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，以提取有关人类活动变化的信息，并将从MGISS、可用资产所有者数据、环境数据和其他辅助来源（如规划申请和批准）的紧密耦合中获益。从本质上讲，该项目可能会探索各种可观察到的变化，如基础设施发展（计划中的和正在进行的），以及识别过去、即将和未来潜在供应中断影响的潜力。

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.