Hoos In STEM Podcast: Bill Basener uses remote sensing data to solve large-scale problems

Hoos In STEM Podcast with Ken Ono

What do erosion, urban planning, food insecurity, disaster relief, and the hunt for lost cities have in common? Big data can help identify and solve those problems – that's the domain of this episode's guest, Professor of Data Science Bill Basener. He is a genuine polymath, with publications in machine learning, signal processing, game theory, ecological economics, evolutionary genetics, and more. In this episode, Basener discusses how remote sensing techniques—long range images of the Earth taken by satellites and aircrafts—and how he and other scientists use that data to identify what's on the ground and how society can help.

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