Over the past few months Lynker Analytics together with our partners Action Aviation and UAV Mapping NZ have flown the entire length of Aotearoa New Zealand capturing aerial photography for the Ministry for the Environment.

Our work with location aware machine learning covers a broad range of industries and use cases from land cover mapping and habitat monitoring e.g. beaver ponds, riparian margins, wetland extent, through to fish detection and asset inspection

Solar power in New Zealand is on the rise. According to the Electricity Authority, New Zealand had more than 34,000 grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) installations at the end of August 2021, a total combined install capacity of over 170 MW.

Shadows caused by clouds, buildings or trees obscuring the light source are commonplace in remote sensing images. These shadows are typically of a different colour than the remainder of the image and they can impair the visual quality.

This is the second instalment of our blog about the NOAA Nvidia GPU Hackathon. Part 1 of the blog described and focused on general introduction and the data used for the hackathon, this part focuses on the algorithms used and the results obtained.