A Multi-Modal Satellite Imagery Dataset for Public Health Analysis in Colombia

By leveraging high-quality, spatiotemporally aligned satellite images and corresponding metadata, the dataset integrates economic, demographic, meteorological, and epidemiological data. Employing a single forwards and a forward-backward technique ensures clear satellite images with minimal cloud cover for every epi-week, significantly enhancing overall data quality.

The extraction process utilizes the satellite extractor package powered by the SentinelHub API, resulting in a comprehensive dataset of 12,636 satellite images from 81 municipalities in Colombia between 2016 and 2018, along with relevant metadata. Beyond expediting public health data analysis across diverse locations and timeframes, this versatile framework consistently captures multimodal features. Its applications extend to various realms in multimodal AI, encompassing deforestation monitoring, forecasting education indices, water quality assessment, tracking extreme climatic events, addressing epidemic illnesses, and optimizing precision agriculture.