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Artificial intelligence to help farmers see cloud-covered fields
- rmason 5y agoIn 1983 I became the first one to take aerial infrared crop photos. I had to order special film from Kodak that had to be refrigerated. We took the passenger seat out of a Cessna and I lay on my stomach and stuck the 35 mm camera through a repair port. Infrared heightens differences in the crop allowing you to see problems often you couldn't see with regular film. When it works it's truly magical yet it has never really taken off. One reason is cost and the other is clouds. Even from satellites the photos are expensive and when you receive them often a cloud blanks out half or more of the field rendering them useless. I reserve judgement on whether what these guys built works or not. But if it does this is truly a gamechanger.