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Lorella Springs Station revisited – Part 1

4X4, Australia, coastal, Landscape, Lorella Springs, NT, Plant, sand, Textures, trees

The hardest lighting conditions The Doc has had on a helicopter trip was at Lorella Springs Station in the Northern Territory. The pilot was Nick, who also took The Doc around Arnhem Land and Kakadu.

There was low light, overcast and the moving helicopter meant many missed shots (blurred due to movement).

Lorella Springs is a working cattle station, and the flight went over the Lost City – one of many using that name in Australia, out to the Roper Region of the Gulf of Carpentaria, following Rosie Creek.

Part 1 was taken with a Canon 1DX camera. Coming in Part 2 are the Pentax Medium Format images. Click on an image to see a slideshow at full size. Viva Cristo Rey.

Part 2 is here.

Weedscan App work

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The Doc is working as a volunteer project for the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions. They need 100’s of thousands of images quality assessed.

Once the images are culled the remaining images will be used to train an AI used to identify weeds in version 2 of the Weedscan App. The Doc’s first lot of over 90,000 images has been done and the second installment of over 70,000 images is being processed. Several staff and volunteers are working on around 900,000 images in total.

All that culling of motorsport and wildlife images over many years has come in handy. The work is easy enough, than even the car accident injuries have not stopped it. A nice change. Plus making mistakes will not have a material impact on the AI.