Creating forest inventories with drones and artificial intelligence

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Aug 16, 2023, 4:13 pm1.7k ptsTrendingInteresting
Using drone imagery and artificial intelligence (AI), scientists from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen have developed a method that delineates each tree in a forest, along with an estimate of its height and diameter. This capability can help to create biological inventories of…

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