- Author: Emily C. Dooley, UC Davis
Published on: December 14, 2023
![Red and yellow rectangles mark johnsongrass in an image of a construction site](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/103763small.jpg)
Johnsongrass patches identified using Google Street View. The yellow boxes were designated by artificial intelligence; the red boxes were drawn by human hand.
Algorithm for AI enables low-cost tracking of invasive plant
To manage johnsongrass, a noxious weed that crowds out cotton and sickens horses, farmers have tried herbicides, burning and hand-pulling. Now, researchers at University of California, Davis, have developed a more high-tech weapon against the invasive weed: artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Using photos from Google's Street View database, UC Davis researchers have tracked down over 2,000 cases of johnsongrass...
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
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