ePaddocks Australian Paddock Boundaries v.2

The ePaddocks™ Australian Paddock Boundaries dataset is a shapefile containing the boundaries of paddocks at national spatial extent.\nLineage: At its core, it is based on artificial intelligence, that is, we teach computers to understand satellite images. In our approach, we teach our computers multiple tasks at once because it has been shown to improve learning overall.\n\nThe ePaddocks™ algorithm analyses satellite images of mainland Australia's agricultural areas to locate the boundary between the paddock and other paddocks and farm management areas. We also teach it to recognise paddock boundaries regardless of their orientation and level of zoom (a process we call data augmentation).

ePaddocks™ 澳大利亚地块边界数据集是一份覆盖全国空间范围的形状文件（shapefile），存储了澳大利亚农业地块的边界信息。
数据集溯源：其核心依托人工智能（Artificial Intelligence）技术，本质为通过训练计算机理解卫星遥感影像。在本方案中，我们采用多任务联合训练模式，已有研究表明该方式可整体提升模型学习性能。
ePaddocks™ 算法会对澳大利亚本土农业区域的卫星遥感影像进行分析，以精准定位地块与其他地块、农场管理区域之间的边界。同时，我们还训练该算法可无视地块边界的朝向与缩放级别完成识别，这一处理过程我们称之为数据增强（data augmentation）。