Digital Platform For Mapping Non-Compliant Brick Kilns

United Nations Development Programme’s Accelerator Labs, the arm working towards tackling sustainability challenges, in partnership with Nottingham University has developed 'Geo AI Platform' to map such brick manufacturing units which flout the mandatory environmental

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Published - Monday, 21 Dec, 2020

Digital Platform For Mapping Non-Compliant Brick Kilns

United Nations Development Programme’s Accelerator Labs, the arm working towards tackling sustainability challenges, in partnership with Nottingham University has developed 'Geo AI Platform' to map such brick manufacturing units which flout the mandatory environmental regulations and are responsible for higher emissions of harmful gases. The Geo AI platform, making use of the gathered data and artificial intelligence tools, has been developed to help environmental regulators take actions on non-compliant brick manufacturing units. The brick manufacturing units have distinct spatial features that can be detected from satellite imagery using object detection algorithms. The digital platform uses a variety of criteria to filter the non-compliant units. Minimum distance from a water body, the minimum distance between adjacent brick kiln, distance from schools and hospitals are some of the factors, specified by environmental regulators, which are taken into consideration by Geo AI platform. Availability of such crucial information could assist the regulators in taking appropriate action regarding such units responsible for flouting environmental norms and emitting harmful gases.