NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California

[gradschool]

If 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/

[ikekkdcjkfke]

Oh my god, are we going to have machine learning "Minority Report" from space analysis of earth?

[helsinkiandrew]

Not space - 2km or 20km up depending on the aircraft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_visible/infrared_imag...

[whalesalad]

We’ve been doing this for years. FarmLogs (YC 12) used satellite imagery to determine crop health and identify pests/disease.

[Garvi]

No. But they're gonna spot your cannabis plants with spectral analysis from high altitude now and put you in a work camp.

[scottLobster]

Military was doing it in Iraq back in 09 with planes 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.

[gonzo41]

Look up DARPA gorgon stare. You're like ~20 years late.

[cyost]

Here's another modern example (ICE and LexisNexis)

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/20/lexisnexis-ice-surveilla...

[35mm]

It already exists and is called SENTIENT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_(intelligence_analysi...

[morkalork]

https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/ndvi-the-indispens...

[fnord77]

alcohol is unsafe in any quantity. when are we going to move beyond this poison?

[2023throwawayy]

Life is unsafe in any quantity.

[mistrial9]

apparently, 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.

[2023throwawayy]

> the preferred table refreshments of privileged diners

You can buy a bottle of wine for $4.50 at Trader Joe's.

[getwiththeprog]

Are you claiming that people are volunteering for jobs that should rather be paid employment?