Opinion: Drones and artificial intelligence Help Combat San Francisco Bay’s trash problem
With drone photography, “we can track all of the trash in a creek, river, or stream, examine how it’s distributed, and then apply machine-learning algorithms to analyze those images as often as we want,” says Tony Hale, program director for environmental informatics at the nonprofit San Francisco Estuary Institute. The drone research is part of a new project by SFEI and its sister organization Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, through funding from the Ocean Protection Council…