Our client works in outdoor estate maintenance, where accurate site estimations are important for quoting service costs.
The team relied on satellite imagery for this, spending hours drawing polygons around fields, vegetation, and built-up areas, and then using built-in tools to calculate surface area.
While this method worked, it wasn’t scalable. Depending on the size and complexity of a site, a single map could take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes to complete. With tens of thousands of sites to manage each year, it could quickly become daunting.
We set out to design a solution that could automatically detect and draw polygons around areas of interest, cutting down the manual work and making large-scale site estimation practical and efficient.
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