A drone found a recently crashed meteor in Australia - Universe Today by AndyTomaswick
Drones have become more and more ubiquitous in recent years. From recently discovering the Endurance to participating in wars, drones have made history in more ways than one. Now they have a new job title to add to their resume –A team from Curtin University in Australia came up with this new use case for a drone and recently reported on their first successful new meteorite find.
That is still a lot of area to cover, and using a typical meteorite search technique of having groups of volunteers spread out to look for it would likely have been untenable. So the group at Curtin turned to a drone and AI algorithm to help in the process. They had developed and trained a neural network algorithm, a type of AI, to search for fallen meteorites. Using pictures of known meteorites in similar environments, they trained the algorithm on what to look for.