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In applications across agriculture, ecology, and human development, machine learning with satellite imagery (SatML) is limited by the sparsity of labeled training data. While satellite data cover the globe, labeled training datasets for…
We propose a framework stitching of vector representations of large scale raster mosaic images in distributed computing model. In this way, the negative effect of the lack of resources of the central system and scalability problem can be…
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