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A deep learning technique that is able to remove cloud cover from satellite imagery data:
The article:
The University of Hertfordshire says its technology tie-up with the Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall will open up a raft of business opportunities for retailers, insurance firms and the agricultural industry by producing better-quality mapping data about the UK.
The university claims that tapping into Goonhillyβs artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning platforms has enabled it to create a service that will provide access to satellite mapping data of the UK that is free from cloud cover for the first time.
It relies on the use of satellite radar imaging, which can pass through clouds, to produce detailed images of the Earthβs surface regularly.
The work is being led by astrophysicist professor James Geach and his PhD student Mike Smith, whose team have used Goonhillyβs NVIDIA GPU supercomputer to train its ClearSky algorithm on a huge set of satellite images of the Earthβs surface.
βGoonhillyβs deep learning platform has allowed us to massively accelerate time to market,β said Geach.
βThe platformβs phenomenal processing speed has made it possible for us to significantly scale up our models and increase the scope of our analysis. It is rewarding to see how techniques developed for astrophysics can be applied to Earth observation data to deliver real-world impact.β
Geach and his team already have a number of potential use cases in mind for the data, including using it to monitor coastal erosion, track the impact of climate change on crop growth patterns, and predict where flooding and wildfires might occur. These, in turn, could open up business opportunities for retailers, insurance firms, commodity traders and supermarkets, they said.
They have also forged ties with agricultural technology company Agrimetrics to provide capabilities for the firm to monitor the health and growth rate of 2.8 million fields across the UK on a weekly basis.
The team is looking to spin out its own commercial venture, known as Deep
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