Result highlights
The story
A nonprofit research organization partners with the U.S. Geological Survey to support water monitoring systems that forecast floods and droughts across the United States.
Analysts previously relied on a labor-intensive manual approach to digitize water boundaries in every image, creating a critical bottleneck for...
Quotes
“Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) was used to automate a key part of the overall workflow that our USGS colleagues have described as the main bottleneck for real-time image analysis that previously was done with a labor-intensive manual approach to digitize water boundaries in each image, which is critical for rapid response use cases and scaling solutions nationally and beyond.”
The company
Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
usra.eduSpace and aeronautics research organization advancing science and STEM education.
Implementation partner
Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
usra.eduDeveloped a fine-tuned version of SAM 2 to help USGS identify water in drone and satellite imagery.