(FILES) This file photo taken on June 30, 2016 shows a woman holding her child while waiting in a queue at one of the Unicef nutrition clinics in Muna informal settlement, in the outskirts of Maiduguri capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Northeast Nigeria has been torn apart for the last seven years by Boko Haram insurgents. At least 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2,6 million others left homeless by the Islamist fighters. With homes and businesses destroyed and farmland devastated, the United Nations has warned that some 50,000 children could starve to death this year in Borno state alone if nothing is done. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS
LONDON: A new technique using artificial intelligence to read satellite images could aid efforts to eradicate global poverty by indicating where help is needed most, a team of US researchers said.
The method would assist governments and charities trying to fight poverty but lacking precise and reliable information on where poor people are living and what they need, the researchers based at Stanford University in California said.
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