Applying Machine learning to domains like Earth Sciences is impeded by the lack of labeled data, despite a large corpus of raw data available in such domains. For instance, training a wildfire classifier on satellite imagery requires curating a massive and diverse dataset, which is an expensive and time-consuming process that can span from weeks to months. Searching for relevant examples in over 40 petabytes of unlabelled data requires researchers to manually hunt for such images, much like finding a needle in a haystack. We present a no-code end-to-end pipeline, Curator, which dramatically minimizes the time taken to curate an exhaustive labeled dataset. Curator is able to search massive amounts of unlabelled data by combining self-supervision, scalable nearest neighbor search, and active learning to learn and differentiate image representations. The pipeline can also be readily applied to solve problems across different domains. Overall, the pipeline makes it practical for researchers to go from just one reference image to a comprehensive dataset in a diminutive span of time.

With climate change predicted to increase the likelihood of landslide events, there is a growing need for rapid landslide detection technologies that help inform emergency responses. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a remote sensing technique that can provide measurements of affected areas independent of weather or lighting conditions. Usage of SAR, however, is hindered by domain knowledge that is necessary for the pre-processing steps and its interpretation requires expert knowledge. We provide simplified, pre-processed, machine-learning ready SAR datacubes for four globally located landslide events obtained from several Sentinel-1 satellite passes before and after a landslide triggering event together with segmentation maps of the landslides. From this dataset, using the Hokkaido, Japan datacube, we study the feasibility of SAR-based landslide detection with supervised deep learning (DL). Our results demonstrate that DL models can be used to detect landslides from SAR data, achieving an Area under the Precision-Recall curve exceeding 0.7. We find that additional satellite visits enhance detection performance, but that early detection is possible when SAR data is combined with terrain information from a digital elevation model. This can be especially useful for time-critical emergency interventions. Code is made publicly available at https://github.com/iprapas/landslide-sar-unet.

机器学习（ML）系统的开发和部署可以用现代工具轻松执行，但该过程通常是匆忙和意思是结束的。缺乏勤奋会导致技术债务，范围蠕变和未对准的目标，模型滥用和失败，以及昂贵的后果。另一方面，工程系统遵循明确定义的流程和测试标准，以简化高质量，可靠的结果的开发。极端是航天器系统，其中关键任务措施和鲁棒性在开发过程中根深蒂固。借鉴航天器工程和ML的经验（通过域名通过产品的研究），我们开发了一种经过验证的机器学习开发和部署的系统工程方法。我们的“机器学习技术准备水平”（MLTRL）框架定义了一个原则的过程，以确保强大，可靠和负责的系统，同时为ML工作流程流线型，包括来自传统软件工程的关键区别。 MLTRL甚至更多，MLTRL为跨团队和组织的人们定义了一个人工智能和机器学习技术的人员。在这里，我们描述了通过生产化和部署在医学诊断，消费者计算机视觉，卫星图像和粒子物理学等领域，以通过生产和部署在基本研究中开发ML方法的几个现实世界使用情况的框架和阐明。