Google Earth AI releases vectorized dataset mapping hedgerows and woodlands in the British countryside
From pixels to planning: Earth AI for nature restoration
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Google Research has released a vectorized dataset that converts the high-resolution raster maps in Farmscapes 2020 into actionable inventories of hedgerows, stone walls, and scrubland, covering more than 130,000 square kilometers of the UK. The framework fine-tunes an RSF Vision Transformer backbone pretrained on over 300 million global satellite images and uses Polsby–Popper compactness scores to distinguish woodland, woody patches, and linear woody features.
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