Building a COCO-format training set from smallholder drone photos

Mapalo Chileshe · Data scientist

Used the Analysis Notebook's zonal segmentation and export cells to turn 40 raw drone photos from three cooperatives into a clean COCO-format dataset, labels, bounding boxes and vegetation stats included. Machine learning for African agriculture keeps stalling on the data-preparation step; running it entirely in the browser on WebAssembly meant I never had to upload a single image to train on.