New paper “Open-access model for detecting openly dumped dispersed municipal solid waste from crowdsourced UAV imagery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Openly dumped waste is a serious environmental and public health problem in many fast-growing cities, but small and scattered amounts of waste are often hard to track. A recent study introduces an open-access deep learning model that uses crowdsourced drone imagery to detect openly dumped municipal solid waste in urban and peri-urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa.