Energy Infrastructure

Energy Infrastructure Map of the World

2018

Varun Nair (Mechanical Engineering), Tamasha Pathirathna (Computer Science), Xiaolan You (Computer Science/Statistics), and Qiwei Han (Chemistry) spent ten weeks creating a ground-truthed dataset of electricity infrastructure that can be used to automatically map the transmission and distribution components of the electric power grid. This is the first publicly available dataset of its kind, and will be analyzed during the academic year as part of a Bass Connections team.

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Disciplines Involved:  Environmental Science, Economics, all quantitative STEM

Project Lead:  Kyle Bradbury

Project Manager: Qiwei Han

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