Mila's open-source Harpia uses drones + AI to survey hundreds of tree crowns in a day
Mila_Quebec · x · 2026-10-29
Étienne Laliberté's team at Université de Montréal and Mila built Kanopia, using drones and AI to monitor tropical forests tree by tree.
Their open-source workflow Harpia lets a single pilot automatically photograph hundreds of individual tree crowns in a day — work that would take months by hand — offering a reusable AI-for-Science tool for forest conservation.
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