Building data
Building data
At the core of terrax.africa is an artificial intelligence pipeline that analyses, detects and classifies buildings on satellite images. We always compare at least two images of the same areas at two different points in time. Thereby, we can provide you insights on a per hectare level about how the hectares, wards and constituencies / LGAs have changed and are changing.
Precision, recall and the F-score are metrics to measure how well an AI model performs. More background about these concepts is available on here.
The terrax.africa building data is produced using a multi-step AI pipeline. It contains two major steps:
- First, buildings are detected by processing satellite images. The goal of this step is to identify buildings on a satellite image. Besides the underlying trained detector, the results also depend on the specific quality of the satellite image (lighting, clarity, etc.).
- Second, all detected buildings are classified into the different building types and the roof colors are detected.
Please refer to the page Building type and color definitions
The annual growth rates are calculated on a per km², administration 2 level (e.g. constituency, Local Government Area, Department) and administration 3 level (e.g. ward, council, communes). Depending on the dashboard, the different growth rates are available. We always compare the number of buildings on two different point of times and compute the annual growth rates.