Organisation Name
AI-Lab at the German Environment Agency
Industry
Public service
Organisation Website
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/digitalisation/the-ai-lab-at-the-german-environment-agency
Country
Germany
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13: Climate Action
General Description of the AI tool
The rapid growth of renewable energy sources presents challenges in balancing energy development with competing interests, highlighting the need for accurate and up-to-date spatial data for effective management and compliance. Therefore, we developed an AI tool that automatically detects wind turbine locations in Germany using satellite imagery, improving the accuracy of manual registers. Our Remote Sensing Pipeline incorporates a YOLO (You Only Look Once) model inferencing on high-resolution (4.77m) PlanetScope satellite imagery, achieving a 97% detection rate.
Github, open data repository
https://zenodo.org/records/15835057
Relevant Research and Publications
1. Dataset – https://zenodo.org/records/14627853
2. Model – https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics
3. Dataset – https://www.marktstammdatenregister.de/MaStR/Datendownload
Needs
Funding