Congratulations Lars and the DHIS2 team! Just wondering if and when the google project begins - is there any possibility that some of us could be exposed to or participate in those developments?
Greg On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Halvdan Grelland <halvda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very cool! > > 2015-07-07 8:39 GMT+02:00 Lars Helge Ă˜verland <larshe...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> quick summary from California trip. Jan and I went on a 3 day "expert >> meeting" at google. First part was training on the earth engine platform >> <https://earthengine.google.org/#intro>. This is a cloud computational >> platform that makes available a ton of satellite images e.g. from the >> landsat <http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/> program and allows you to do >> analysis like reducing, aggregating, filtering and combining multiple >> images into layers on google data centers. Lots of researches from US and >> European agencies and universities that made presentations on how they use >> it. >> >> Second part was a discussions around how this engine could be more useful >> for researches and "tool makers". Google has committed to using 1% of their >> resources for "good". So far the earth engine has been used mostly for >> forestry / deforestation. They now want to apply it within health. The most >> typical use-case seems to be mapping of risk of malaria and other epidemic >> prone diseases. We met engineers from the Google maps, earth, earth engine >> teams who wanted feedback on which features would be useful in the health >> domain. We also got to present - it was cool to present DHIS 2 in the >> middle of Googleplex ;) >> >> In our group there was people from health metrics and evaluation >> <http://www.healthdata.org/>, UCSF <https://www.ucsf.edu/>, Gates found, >> CHAI, Oxford uni, RTI, Carter center >> <http://www.cartercenter.org/index.html>, Uni of Pittsburgh >> <http://www.pitt.edu/>. There was actually lots of talk of DHIS 2, many >> people knew about it and it seems Google might develop a DHIS 2-compatible >> import tool for the earth engine. >> >> Last day we met with Hugh Sturrock, Adam Bennet, Roly Gosling at UCSF >> (very nice people). We will now work together on an app for mapping of >> malaria risk, probably in zim. The idea is interesting - it will detect >> malaria risk based on rainfall, elevation, vegetation, moisture (this data >> can be derived from satellite images or come from other data sets in the >> earth engine), then overlay it with household visit data collected using >> the new DHIS 2 tracker android app (data on house spraying, bednets, >> prophylaxis). This should tell you exactly which areas are at risk, which >> houses have not yet been sprayed in last x months, and hence where you need >> to go next. UCSF will hire vizzuality <http://www.vizzuality.com/> to do >> the app coding. This means we need to feed data into earth engine so google >> will support on that end. Jan and I have discussed to integrate earth >> engine satellite images directly as a layer in GIS as well. >> >> There is still an "if" in that UCSF must get their funding request >> approved by gates, but otherwise this looks pretty promising. >> >> Lars >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core >> Post to : dhis2-devs-core@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core > Post to : dhis2-devs-core@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- *Health Information Systems Program - South Africa* *- - - - - - - **- - - - - - - **- - - - - - - **- - - - - - - **- - - - - * Mobile : 073 246 2992 Landline: 021 554 3130 Fax: 086 733 8432 Skype: gregory_rowles
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