Google Deepmind Creates Global
DeepMind keeps expanding its applied-science portfolio — after protein folding and weather modeling, now forest monitoring at planetary scale. The idea is sound: satellite imagery plus ML finally makes deforestation tracking cheap and global, and EU deforestation rules create instant demand for exactly this kind of tool.… more
But the accuracy figures cited are sobering — missing roughly half of planted forests is a real problem when the map is meant for regulatory enforcement, where mistakes carry legal weight. In our view this is a solid v1 that becomes genuinely useful once plantation precision improves; the hard part here is rarely the model, it's the messy ground truth.
Google Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI
Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations, and tree crops. The map could help track deforestation under EU rules, but it identifies on…
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