AI for Earth’s Land Cover Mapping

High-resolution land cover mapping is a process of assigning land use labels, such as “impervious surface,” or “tree canopy” to each pixel in high resolution (<1m) aerial or satellite imagery. Such maps are an essential component in environmental science, agriculture, forestry, urban development, the insurance and banking industries, and for demography in developing countries. Traditional Geographic Information System (GIS) workflows start with a variety of segmentation and classification algorithms and