Apparently from the satellite images the ML can identify more of them than a human eye can see while flying. For example you can't see the roots whereas ML can

Apparently from the satellite images the ML can identify more of them than a human eye can see while flying. For example you can't see the roots whereas ML can from the image identify that. That's how I understood why they used ML. It wouldn't have been published in Nature if the research was bollocks. Also how could you count 1.8 billion from flying over? Humanly impossible. Hence again the need of ML.