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The University of Pisa’s Master’s in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining: an excellent outcome for the Kaggle project "Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space”

The University of Pisa’s Master’s in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining: an excellent outcome for the Kaggle project "Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space”

05-01-2022

The international Kaggle challenge “Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space” ended successfully for students supervised by AlmavivA tutors. The project focused on the development of a deforestation detection system using satellite images and was promoted within the University of Pisa’s Master’s in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining.

The team, which finished in the top 3% out of 1000 participants, worked with Elena Gagliardoni and Fabio Previtali, AI Solution Architects on AlmavivA's Data Strategy team.

The objective of the project, in addition to giving the interns experience with image preprocessing, deep learning, and transfer learning techniques, was to get them used to using technology, in particular of AI, to safeguard the environment, also from the perspective of international experiences which could be a starting point for the European Green Deal.

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