“ The capabilities of the trackers are now mature , in that they can detect the nature of a new construction site – whether it ’ s residential , commercial or infrastructure – or they can identify the construction stage of an existing one , things like planning , foundation , elevation , commissioning and so on ”
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Corentin Guillo Founder and Chief Executive , Bird . i
the rapidly growing Middle East region and North Africa , with the Construction Progress Tracker currently monitoring some 1,200- plus sites in the UAE – the company has also collated the data collected into its first extensive construction insight report for Dubai .
And while satellite imagery is already widely used across a number of global industries , it is in the incorporation of AI technology , deep learning and computer vision techniques that Bird . i ’ s solution is truly innovative . “ It ’ s a unique platform solution that can detect any changes from two images over the same location and at two different dates ,” Guillo explains . “ It involves some complex technology – those two images would have lots of changes in terms of their colour , shadows , resolution and acquisition angles , for example . Our trackers remove all of this and simply focus on the real changes like ground
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