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NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y agoOh my god, are we going to have machine learning "Minority Report" from space analysis of earth?
- 35mm 3y agoIt already exists and is called SENTIENT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_(intelligence_analysis_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_(intelligence_analysi...
- Garvi 3y agoNo. But they're gonna spot your cannabis plants with spectral analysis from high altitude now and put you in a work camp.
- getarofilter 3y ago[dead]
- lettergram 3y agoThey’ve been doing that via plane since at least the 70s. There’s a local commune by me that has a “ragweed festival” where a pilot mistook ragweed for pot and raided their compound. They sued the state, got some money and now put on an annual festival in light of the plants they did find on the property haha
- the-dude 3y agoDid he use missiles, drop bombs or strafed with the machinegun? I'm mistified.
- revolvingocelot 3y agoThe pilot provided firing solutions for heavy SWAT ordnance, which then subjected the ragweed people to low-level, round-the-clock saturation "being in jail".
- lettergram 3y agoI guess to be clear, the local sharifs, swat, and other agencies came. I was told it was ~200-300 police who came heavily armed. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/the-farm-summertown-timeline/11936383/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/the-f... See 1980s bullet point
- dylan604 3y agoUrban legend (and an article in the Austin American-Statesman) says that the nearby army base in Killeen would train helicopter pilots by using the known (to them) grow houses in the Austin area because they were easily visible in their IR cameras. I'm guessing the use of LEDs has stopped that though.
- heavenlyblue 3y agoLike the only IR emitter in the whole of the city is a few grow houses. A single car emits vastly more IR purely based on how much hotter it is.
- dylan604 3y agoYou think someone training in military equipment can’t discern between a car and a house? Like totally reaching to make a point but fell on your face.
- heavenlyblue 3y agoAnd why would they train on houses when they can train on a moving car?
- dylan604 3y agoare you intentionally being obtuse?
- whalesalad 3y agoWe’ve been doing this for years. FarmLogs (YC 12) used satellite imagery to determine crop health and identify pests/disease.
- jbottoms 3y agoYes, I worked on it in 1972 for Earth Resiurces Technology Satellite, ERTS, developing an image orocessing library to correct for satellite angles, Sun position and cloud cover. I bellieve that was for NRO/CIA as it was used for grain yields during the Cold War. It read multiple color bands plus IR and we could recognize corn and wheat blight. This allowed it to be used for crop yield predictions, so we knew Russian yields before they did. It was a bunch of linear array processing functions. That satellite is now called IntelSat, likely a KeyHole 10/11.
- saganus 3y agoOut of curiosity, what can you do with data abour Russia's farm yields? Probably a lot, but besides maybe predicting price changes of the crop, I can't think of much (I guess that's why I'm not a gov analyst).
- mturmon 3y agoIn Cold War times, information from remote sensing was recognized as important to understanding the USSR grain harvest and possible instability it might cause. I'm sure interest and target lists have only increased since then. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_United_States–Soviet_Union_wheat_deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_United_States–Soviet_Unio... Or the perennial Afghanistan poppies: https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9851 https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9851
- mc32 3y agoProbably concessions at the bargaining table at the intersection of arms and food. Where before the harvest they might balk at some of the language in an agreement after they learn the harvest was going to be disappointing they may agree to certain demands and make concessions.
- gonzo41 3y agoLook up DARPA gorgon stare. You're like ~20 years late.
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoNot space - 2km or 20km up depending on the aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_visible/infrared_imaging_spectrometer#Platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_visible/infrared_imag...
- morkalork 3y agohttps://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/ndvi-the-indispensable-data-to-forecast-crop-yields https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/ndvi-the-indispens...
- cyost 3y agoHere's another modern example (ICE and LexisNexis) https://theintercept.com/2023/06/20/lexisnexis-ice-surveillance-license-plates/ https://theintercept.com/2023/06/20/lexisnexis-ice-surveilla...
- scottLobster 3y agoMilitary was doing it in Iraq back in 09 with planes https://www.eglin.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/392767/angel-fire-surveillance-a-key-tactical-asset/ https://www.eglin.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/392767... No machine learning, but same concept. There was a constantly orbiting plane with super high-res cameras on the bottom, taking pictures of entire cities, roughly 1 picture per second. When an IED went off they could zoom in and "rewind the clock" and watch where the explosion occurred, watch the person burying the IED, how they arrived, and where they came from up to the city limits. Was apparently an invaluable tool. You'd need tunnels to defeat it. That was almost 15 years ago. I'd be shocked if a satellite version for even larger regions wasn't in the works.
- consumer451 3y agoThe same, or similar, system was deployed in the USA in 2015. [0] It appears to still be available, so I assume it is still being used. [1] [0] http://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-appeals-court-rules-baltimore-aerial-surveillance-program-unconstitutional http://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-appeals-court-rul... [1] https://www.pss-1.com/how-it-works https://www.pss-1.com/how-it-works
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- gradschool 3y agoIf you're interested in machine learning applications like this, others are being researched here [1] and there's an upcoming online event about them. [1] https://fdleurope.org/ https://fdleurope.org/
- mistrial9 3y agoapparently, due to a strange combination of "elite production over-capacity" , climate angst and "capital and power concentration effects" .. there are emerging groups of unpaid, highly-skilled "helpers" who will never have children or property of their own, yet they use crucial data products like this one, to guard with their lives the preferred table refreshments of privileged diners. Helpers are writing automation of machine vision right now, using full-YOLO9 GPU capacity, causing NVidia stock to climb.
- getwiththeprog 3y agoAre you claiming that people are volunteering for jobs that should rather be paid employment?
- 2023throwawayy 3y ago> the preferred table refreshments of privileged diners You can buy a bottle of wine for $4.50 at Trader Joe's.
- kulahan 3y agoTWO BUCK CHUCK WENT UP AGAIN!?
- fnord77 3y agoalcohol is unsafe in any quantity. when are we going to move beyond this poison?
- 2023throwawayy 3y agoLife is unsafe in any quantity.