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I mean they might literally do that with satellite imagery. How do you think they do it?



They use the difference between measured red and infrared light divided by the sum of measured red and infrared light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetati...


I've read it and it states it is not an useful metric and, please correct me if I'm wrong, does not say anything about measuring fake plants. As far as I understood, it does use the reflectance in red and infra red to detect soil, water and vegetation, but it was not designed to detect fake green plastic from plants anyway.

I mean, who would think someone would use fake grass and fake plants and also use paint in mountains. It is so stupid that no one would even think in measuring it.


Plastic doesn't look like foliage under NIR.




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