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Geospatial Databases

Put everyone on the map to ensure that public health interventions leave no one behind

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What is it?

  • What are the operational boundaries of health areas in a given district?
  • Where are the cities, villages, hamlets and other points of interest located and what are they called?
  • How many people are estimated to live in these settlements?
  • Are the buildings in a hard-to-reach village still inhabited

Geospatial context is crucial for planning public health interventions.

Changing circumstances and population movement due to conflicts, climate change or other factors can distort your understanding of the situation and jeopardize the success of your public health program.

We provide

Novel-t can help you leverage geospatial technologies to build your geospatial database and keep it up-to-date so that you can plan and target your public health interventions to areas which need it and avoid those which don’t.

offline data collection with web and mobile GIS app

Advantages

Identify remote or missed settlements
Identify

remote or border settlements often missed during interventions

Estimate settlement population
Estimate

settlement population using machine learning, high-resolution satellite imagery and other data

Plan with geospatial intelligence
Plan

using geospatial intelligence and allocate your resources more efficiently

Improve details
Improve

and detail by delineating polygons for settlements, health administration areas and POIs

Leverage surveillance activities
Leverage

your routine surveillance activities to capture and update geospatial data points

Harmonize your data from different sources
Harmonize

& integrate your data sets from different sources, regardless of completeness or quality

Automate geospatial data
Automate

your geospatial data ingestion pipelines, allowing you to manage data quality and changes