The Centre for Humanitarian Data
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2019
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Title
Electrical Distribution Grid Maps
Description
Facebook has produced a model to help map global medium voltage (MV) grid infrastructure, i.e. the distribution lines which connect high-voltage transmission infrastructure to consumer-serving low-voltage distribution. The data found here are model outputs for six select African countries: Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, DRC, Cote D'Ivoire, and Zambia. The grid maps are produced using a new methodology that employs various publicly-available datasets (night time satellite imagery, roads, political boundaries, etc) to predict the location of existing MV grid infrastructure. The model documentation and code are also available , so data scientists and planners globally can replicate the model to expand model coverage to other countries where this data is not already available. You can find the model code and documentation here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/many-to-many-dijkstra Note: current model accuracy is approximately 70% when compared to existing ground-truthed data. Accuracy can be further improved by integrating other locally-relevant information into the model and running it again. Resolution: geotiff is provided at Bing Tile Level 20
Creator
Facebook
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2019-01-24 to 2019-03-19
Date Issued
2019-03-15
License
http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
May 31, 2024
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.
Facebook (2019). Electrical Distribution Grid Maps. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/5040df47-96a2-4b3c-9a7f-2b7fb2b41316 (dataset)