GEO-REGISTERING AN AERIAL IMAGE BY AN OBJECT DETECTION MODEL USING MACHINE LEARNING

A method of obtaining and geo-registering an aerial image of an object of interest is provided. The method includes obtaining an aerial image by a camera onboard an aircraft. The method includes accessing an object detection model trained using a machine learning algorithm and a training set of aerial images of an object of interest, and using the object detection model to detect the object of interest in the aerial image. The object detection includes a prediction of a boundary of the object of interest depicted in the aerial image based on the defined boundary of the object of interest. The method includes accessing a data store including a geographic location of the object of interest. And the method includes geo-registering the aerial image including the prediction of the boundary of the object of interest with the geographic location of the object of interest.