Surveying informal settlements in the Gauteng province using Machine Learning

Researcher: Ronewa Nemalili, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Professor Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

One of the good ways in which the government can provide better services to its people is through surveying informal settlements, which is why an improvement is always needed on the techniques of surveying them. Fortunately in this project through DSI-NICIS NEPTTP funding the classification of informal settlements were improved through surveying all kinds of dwellings instead of only focusing the areas which were known to be consisted of informal settlements.