Glossary

Note

This glossary is very much WIP and incomplete!

patch

patches

A section of land, cut from a larger tile.

tile

A large section of planetary surface, often defining a basic unit of a geo-referencing system.

collapse level

A metric of how close outputs from a Siamese model are to collapsing to a trivial solution.

euclidean distance

The Euclidean distance between two vectors.

MIoU

Mean Intersection over Union. Measure of the colloration between predicted and ground truth labels in segmentation masks.

OHE

One-hot-encoding. A method of encoding information in vectors of length N where N is the number of possible classes. A label for class n is represented by a 1 placed in the n-th dimension of the vector, with all other dimensions being 0.