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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UZOuQS6GeMI/researchers-use-ai-to-map-every-solar-panel-in-the-us
Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: There are about 1.47 million individual solar panel installations in the US. That number comes courtesy of an artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at Stanford University. The system is outlined in a study released Wednesday that describes how the AI setup analyzed satellite photos to figure out how widespread solar panel usage is. The report, called "DeepSolar: A Machine Learning Framework to Efficiently Construct a Solar Deployment Database in the United States" and published in the journal Joule, showed there are more solar panels out there than previously thought. The group plans to update the database annually and add other countries and regions in the future, the study says.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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