Looking to contribute in open project

[Vartika Sinha]

Hello there!

I am a web application developer learning analytics part time. As a part of my project I got interested in open data, GIS and image classification of satellite data. 

Currently I am spending my time on an agriculture project where I need identify the area under cultivation.

I am still connecting the dots. GIS and satellite data are all very interesting.

But there is a long way to go. I am looking to contribute in an open project like this and learn from it. Are there any projects like this? 

Any suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

fledgling

 

 

[Arun Ganesh]

If you are interested in getting into neural networks for visual recognition in satellite imagery, maybe this project might be a good start to try out https://github.com/rodowi/unmapped

Its an attempt by a colleague from Mapbox to detect roads on satellite imagery that are not mapped on OSM.

Would also be great to hear more about your agricultural project.

Arun

[Vartika Sinha]

Thank you for pointing me to the project. This is exactly what we are trying to achieve. Well, we have not reached to the stage where we will use neural nets.

For our project we have been provided with geo-tagged images of crop fields as our ground data. We are using lansat-8 and sentinel images to build a model which would then predict the area under cultivation. We are trying to achieve this for 1 crop only for a small portion of land (district or taluk).