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Separating the Vine from the Noise – Detecting Vine Rows in Vineyards

Just before the holidays I received this short article from a student and his advisors at our Trimble Innovation Program partner at the Stellenbosch University Centre for Geographic Analysis in South Africa: Jonathan West, Carlos Poblete-Echeverria, and Kyle…

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Satellites & Drones Against Coastal Pollution – Hunting for Plastic in the Arctic

Our customer Akvaplan-niva is currently running two large, exciting projects with the mission of mapping litter along shorelines and the sea surface in Arctic Norway and Russia. The project is called “Detecting, identifying and mapping plastic in the Arctic using…

Natural Disasters UAV by Matthias Stängel August 2, 2021

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Machine Learning vs. Knowledge-Based Classification for Landslide Mapping

One more great Trimble eCognition story coming at you before we all go our separate ways on Summer vacation! This piece from Karantanellis et al., 2021, entitled “ Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Object-Based Mapping of Landslide Zones Using…

Forestry UAV by Matthias Stängel April 27, 2021

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The Forest Below the Canopy – Mapping Hidden Dead Wood

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Maybe not, but we can certainly see it! A recent publication by Christan Thiel, from the German Aerospace Center (DLR),…

UAV Wetlands by Matthias Stängel September 18, 2018

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Boats, Drones and Great Mapping Results

I increasingly see references to “mapping” this or that simply based on capturing image data of the area in question. Mapping is much more than image data acquisition, it is the interpretation of such data and graphical representation of meaningful information by…

Agriculture UAV by Matthias Stängel January 12, 2018

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Using Deep Learning and UAVs to Identify Citrus Trees

It is not always easy to find academic papers that grab an audiences’ attention right from the start, but this new article from Csillik et al. did just that” Their article, entitled “ Identification of Citrus Trees from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery…

UAV by Matthias Stängel December 1, 2016

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eCognition, Archaeology & More

In the first issue of this year’s technology & more magazine, our users from the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) made the cover with their use of eCognition to generate the first comprehensive geospatial dataset for the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island).…

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Separating the Vine from the Noise – Detecting Vine Rows in Vineyards

Satellites & Drones Against Coastal Pollution – Hunting for Plastic in the Arctic

Machine Learning vs. Knowledge-Based Classification for Landslide Mapping

The Forest Below the Canopy – Mapping Hidden Dead Wood

Boats, Drones and Great Mapping Results

Using Deep Learning and UAVs to Identify Citrus Trees

eCognition, Archaeology & More

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