A group of researchers learned how to find fallen meteorites using drone footage and
The researchers say their machine learning program will reduce the amount of time scientists have to spend scouring the desert for meteorites.
Seamus Anderson, a PhD student at Curtin University's Centre for Space Science and Technology, says meteorites are important to study because they cantell us more about the geology of the solar system.
"In addition to deepening our understanding of the solar system, studying meteorites is useful for many reasons," he sayshim." For example, meteorites often contain a high concentration of rare and valuable elements, such as cobalt, which hascrucial for the creation of modern batteries."
But, as a rule, the identification and search for meteorites is a time-consuming process.They calculated that it takes about 350 working days to find meteorites.
To solve this problem, Anderson and colleaguestrained a neural network to identify meteorites from drone footage. Using this method, four researchers were able to find the stone after 12 working days, which is definitely less than 350.
Source: arxiv.org