How artificial intelligence could help get better ice charts to mariners faster
By training computers to identify ice on satellite images, humans will be able make full use of all the data that is available to them
Even though modern ice charts are made, to a large extent, using advanced satellite imagery, the process of actually compiling them still requires a human touch: All those pictures beamed back to Earth must be analyzed by meteorologists, and the charts that mariners will eventually use must be drawn up manually.
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