Last month CBC News published a story on Antoine Caron-Guay’s research identifying and mapping young invasive plants using drones and AI:

To conduct his field research throughout May and September of 2022, he used two large drones to take a multitude of high-resolution aerial photos, flying them through the air to map the area below in detail.

He took these photos back to a lab and fed them into an AI program that he trained to look for common reed plants from above.

Once the AI knows what it’s looking for, it can analyze new photos in minutes or even seconds. Caron-Guay says his program, for which preliminary results show about 90 per cent accuracy, can be used to speed up the work of park conservation officers.

Read more from CBC and Institut de recherche en biologie végétale

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