Descartes Labs
Artificial intelligence can now rapidly search through billions of aerial and satellite images to find similar buildings or land features, such as football fields and Arctic ponds. This capability could help researchers classify the amount of land taken up by forests or farms, or could be used by militaries to identify bases or specific weapons used by other countries.
Xander Rudelis and his colleagues at Descartes Labs, a geospatial data firm in New Mexico, have developed an AI …
source: newscientist.com