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12/14/2021

Predicting Rain from Satellite Images!

Alexander Stauch - Head of Marketing
Dr. Alexander Stauch
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Learn from Philipp Wirth and his team at lightly how to train a neural network to predict precipitation based on satellite images pulled from our powerful Weather API!

Great work and congratulations on the publication in "Towards Data Science" - it was our pleasure to support you and your team!

Read the original publication in « towardsdatascience”.

About Lightly

Lightly is a young company from Switzerland, developing solutions to filter and select raw data used for machine learning and AI training. Their goal is to become the number one data preparation dev-toolbox for machine learning – providing all the needed elements for data preparation, such as anonymization, augmentation, and filtering.

See also: https://www.lightly.ai/

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