Remote Sensing

Building a comprehensive dataset of U.S. carceral facilities using geospatial data, satellite imagery, APIs, and machine learning to support historical research on hyper-incarceration.

It was fairly early on in my data science explorations that I discovered ‘remote sensing’. I have always known that satellite imaging was extant tech, and that most people interact with it in one way or another, probably through something akin to Google Maps. Though I had never given it much ‘formal’ thought, I assumed that this type of space age tech was limited to governments and powerful corporations. That assumption was markedly false—I was interested to learn. ...