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TACKLING ILLEGAL FISHING WITH TRUE RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a threat to food supply and marine ecosystem health, It exacerbates the effects of climate change and can damage wildlife.

This demo is based on the xView3 challenge, in which scientists are being tasked to develop algorithms that identify and classify SAR satellite images of vessels suspected of engaging in IUU fishing.

Why this
is difficult

Most illegal fishing vessels are not cooperating with automatic identification systems, so there must be some other method to detect them.

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Detecting small vessels
Ground truth label and detected vessel a correct prediction will be marked by green circle
Going Beyond
Today’s 
Hardware Limits

Today, GPUs can only handle images lower than 4k resolution.

In the below example, we include detections from models trained on image  patches which are 800x800 (left), as well as larger patches which are 2048x2048 pixels(middle), all  he way to 5k x 5k (right). Having more contextual information through higher resolution, is critical to making more accurate predictions.

Only Sambanova can handle true resolution data, which is critical to accuracy in object detection, segmentation problems, and image classification.

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With SambaNova’s true resolution capabilities, achieve breakthrough accuracy on object detection on satellite imagery.

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