Mapping ancient woodland image segmentation model
Benefits
These areas are ideal for re-planting because the soil supports tree growth due to an established seed bank and ecosystem. The data will also be published on DataMapWales for others to use.
Details
- Tool name
- Mapping ancient woodland image segmentation model
- Organisation
- GOV.WALES
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Computer Vision, Other
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Computer Vision Other
- Usecase
- Vision AI
- Origin
- GOV.UK
- Owning team
- GOV.WALES
- Date added
- 4 July 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Using computer vision, an AI technology that works with images, to find areas of historic woodland on old maps. By comparing these maps with today's data, we can find places where woods have been cut down in the last 150 years. [Source]