Leveraging Ai to segment areas

David Powers
Sitting in a SAR MLPI class we're working a multi day lost person incident in Yosemite. Trying to segment such a large area is a surmountable task. Was wondering if there is a way ro leverage AI to draw segments of a certain size range based off of land features as well trails (based off of the new shared maps), in order to decrease the time it takes a human to segment such large areas into usable search areas.
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    Bob Filler 410

    This is a great idea.  I would sort of like to see something developed utilizing LLMs,  I am not exactly sure it would need to be "Generative AI" which is what most folks think of when they see "AI".  I am not sure how easy or cost effective it would be to use gAI to create polygons, lines, markers, etc. as individual segments.  But utilizing machine learning techniques I would imagine it would be fairly simple for someone to code in something like a "map sheet" overlay or possibly something similar to a "view shed" custom overlay utilizing a series of prompts.  Age, Mental Status, Physical Status, How familiar are they with the area, Are they a skilled survivalist, and a laundry list of other variables that would then be able to build a "heat map" based on probabilities.  The trick to that though is for folks to not get caught up in only focusing on the product.  One thing I have learned over the years is the moment you think the person would not or could not be in an area, you will be wrong.  

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