Deep learning: Saving rainforests with TensorFlow

Deforestation accounts for nearly 20% of all global carbon emissions, and is responsible for trillions of dollars of economic loss. With 80% of all Amazon timber being illegally logged, a solution for the detection and detterence of this is desperately required. However, there are a number of obstacles . Given the vast and dense nature of rainforests, rangers simply don’t have the resources or manpower…