{"id":236480,"date":"2026-06-24T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/counting-trees-from-space-with-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:20:33","slug":"counting-trees-from-space-with-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/counting-trees-from-space-with-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Trees From Space with Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/counting-trees-from-space-with-artificial-intelligence\">Counting Trees From Space with Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/counting-trees-from-space-with-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/counting-trees-from-space-with-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 08:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newswise.com\">www.newswise.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Transformation in Research Tracking<\/strong>: The article highlights how satellite monitoring has revolutionized the way researchers track deforestation, land-cover change, and ecosystem dynamics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Methodology Limitations<\/strong>: It addresses the shortcomings of widely used global products based on medium-resolution imagery, which often fail to distinguish single trees in open landscapes, farms, savannas, and fragmented forests.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Advances in High-Resolution Imagery<\/strong>: Despite the benefits of very-high-resolution imagery, the manual annotation and cost associated with training such systems are major barriers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Need for Scalable Tools<\/strong>: There is a critical need for scalable, accurate, transferable, and cost-effective methods to count, locate, and monitor individual trees over time amid climate change and land-use pressures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>New Deep Learning Approach<\/strong>: The study introduces a novel anchor-free deep learning method for detecting large individual trees using 3-meter PlanetScope imagery by creating Gaussian heatmaps to represent tree crowns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Key Innovation &#8211; 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