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Google Research·· 2026-06-17

From pixels to planning: Earth AI for nature restoration

From pixels to planning: Earth AI for nature restoration

AI summary

Google Research released vector data converting Farmscapes 2020 high-resolution raster maps into usable inventories of hedgerows, stone walls and coppices across over 130,000 square kilometres of the UK. The framework fine-tunes an RSF Vision-Transformer pretrained on over 300 million global satellite images with around 247 square kilometres of labelled data. Polsby–Popper compactness distinguishes woodland, clusters of trees and hedgerows, with a threshold below 0.5 for linear features.

Selection record

Not admittedSum of both 76 < twice the threshold 120

Source tier
Official, first-hand; this tier's threshold is 60
Pre-filter
passed:Google Earth AI深度学习框架用于生态制图

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

Source: Google Research · research.google