Matt Hallas

Matt Hallas is a Senior Consultant at DevGlobal with a passion for applying remote sensing and satellite-based solutions to problems facing the Global Development community. Leveraging a decade’s worth of experience supporting major donors and multi-lateral institutions such as the BMGF and the WHO, Matt pulls from the full suite of available and yet to be developed data types and analytics that unlock huge potential for the success of programs ranging from microplanning to combating NTD’s.

Creating our on-ramp: how to train a hungry AI model

January 30, 2025April 19, 2022 by Matt Hallas

Zoomed out Satellite image of rural town with computer generated rectangles over houses

The ramp project is an ambitious endeavor for many reasons, not the least of which is the curation and open release of high-quality training data in the form of tens of thousands of high-resolution imagery chips with accompanying labels that “teach” our machine learning model . . .