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AI-Assisted Alignment and Enhancement of Historical Aerial Imagery

Accountable
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Functional Modes
Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Human executes
Purpose
Research & Development
Input Dataset
About a place Anonymized data
Algorithm or Model
Computer Vision
Output Dataset
About a place Anonymized data

This system uses artificial intelligence to automatically align, enhance resolution, and add colour to historical aerial photographs from the National Air Photo Library. It makes decades of archival imagery accessible for research and allows scientists and planners to study how landscapes have changed over time. The system is used internally by Government of Canada employees and its outputs are not used to make decisions about individual people.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

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Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register