Artificial intelligence How satellite images and AI could help fight spatial apartheid in South Africa Townships get little by way of public resources compared with rich suburbs.

IRIS Makran and IRIS Dena in port in Cape Town, South Africa on April 4, 2023 Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies used with permission Iran’s two-ship surface action group was spotted this ...

The satellite imagery revealed that night-time light declined by 20% over urban South Africa between 2016 and 2023. However, some suburbs remained curiously bright even when the power was out.

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The satellite imagery revealed that nighttime light declined by 20% over urban South Africa between 2016 and 2023. However, some suburbs remained curiously bright even when the power was out.

A 2019 nightime satellite image of the Western Cape. CC BY-NC-SA So we compared publicly available night-time satellite images of 300 suburbs with satellite images of South African rooftops taken ...