Finding all the Trees in the World

Akin to my previously mentioned Agriculture Deep Lens problem.   No Deeplens appears to have been tried here.   In Flowing data:

Finding all of the trees in the world with machine learning

Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the world where at least one-meter resolution satellite imagery is available. Tim Wallace with the maps:

The ability to map tree canopy at a such a high resolution in areas that can’t be easily reached on foot would be helpful for utility companies to pinpoint encroachment issues—or for municipalities to find possible trouble spots beyond their official tree census (if they even have one). But by zooming out to a city level, patterns in the tree canopy show off urban greenspace quirks. For example, unexpected tree deserts can be identified and neighborhoods that would most benefit from a surge of saplings revealed.  ... "

The full article, via Tim Wallace, with map images,  shows the complexity of the problem:

Deepdive with Deeplens

A good idea for testing out image driven machine learning.

A Deep Dive on AWS DeepLens
 by Janakiram MSV    in theNewStack

Technically speaking, you don’t need a $249 device to run an offline convolutional neural network model. If you are a maker with an appetite to build things from the scratch, consider getting the Google Vision Kit   https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision    It is a cheaper, DIY version of DeepLens. 

Amazon Ships DeepLens

This intrigues me.  A means to get data for prototype vision-centric machine learning.   A way to generate test data that will be needed.  The article includes a hands-on test and it takes it further on to their Sagemaker system.  Perhaps to provide data for assistants?

Amazon starts shipping its $249 DeepLens AI camera for developers
In Techcrunch: By Frederic Lardinois  @frederici

Back at its re:Invent conference in November, AWS announced its $249 DeepLens, a camera that’s specifically geared toward developers who want to build and prototype vision-centric machine learning models. The company started taking pre-orders for DeepLens a few months ago, but now the camera is actually shipping to developers.  .. "

DeepLens Camera for Video Learning with AWS

Received:

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What will you build?  .... " 

More on the Camera.

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