by Amandine | Sep 2, 2020 | technical
Distributed web scraper : Scraper, Scraping, Scrapy A scraper is a program whose goal is to extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page. Scripting languages are mostly used for...
by Amandine | Apr 14, 2020 | technical
Predicting the Solar Potential of Rooftops using Image Segmentation and Structured Data How could we automatically estimate the amount of electricity that solar panels could generate on any building of a country, instantly? It would require to be able to massively...
by Amandine | Feb 5, 2020 | technical
How we improved our estimation of vegetated surfaces with Computer Vision Here at namR, we’re putting our hard work into building a Digital Twin of the French territory. We aggregate, clean and re-organize a large quantity of data of different formats coming from many...
by Amandine | May 16, 2019 | technical
Merging geospatial data Today we are going to discuss on geospatial data. And to build a rich description of the object, the real challenge is to join these pieces together. But in absence of a clear and coherent name or index, this process can become quite difficult...
by Amandine | May 16, 2019 | technical
To detect all solar panels on the roofs of french buildings, we used aerial imagery and the known outlines of the buildings, through a pipeline consisting of a solar panel outline detector and a filtering algorithm. We took inspiration from the projects revolving...
by Amandine | May 16, 2019 | technical
Advanced aerial images analysis At namR we are working hard to build a Digital Twin of France, and to achieve that we use a lot of sources of information. One of the richest of them being aerial images. For us, humans, “reading” images is easy, but to teach computers...
