Spring Annuals Trial HarnessHabitat NZ · technical demo by EmerTech

Synthetic ladder — 8.0 mm/px — dense

synth-ladder-8-dense · Synthetic — generated with exact truth · 1280 × 960 px

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Truth is exact by construction. Green crosses and boxes are real plants; dashed red are planted hard negatives — rock flecks, lichen and droppings a detector must not count.

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Everything downstream — every chart, every export, every number quoted to a panel — is indexed on these figures.

Ground sample distance
8.00 mm/px
millimetres of ground per pixel
Altitude
30 m
above ground level, nadir
A 10 mm plant spans 1.3 px hereBelow detection

At ~1.3 px across, the plant is at or below one pixel. No model recovers what the optics never captured; fly lower or use a longer lens.

Dimensions
1280 × 960 px (1.2 MP)
Camera
DJI Mavic 3E — wide

4/3 CMOS, 20 MP, 24 mm equivalent, ƒ=12.29 mm actual, 3.28 µm pitch. DJI's own rule of thumb is GSD ≈ H/36.5 cm/px; this spec gives ≈0.267 mm/px per metre AGL. The default survey camera and the one Keith is most likely to fly.

Source
Synthetic — generated with exact truth
Licence
CC0 (generated) commercial use OK
Attribution
Synthetic scene — EmerTech generator
Scene
dense regime · target count 1207 · seed 616829882

The generator was asked for this many plants at this density regime; the recorded truth below is what it actually placed after collision rejection.

Ground truth by species

1207 plants and 23 planted hard negatives, exact by construction.

SpeciesPlantsPx at 8.00 mm/pxVerdict
Ceratocephala pungens
Pygmy buttercup · 18 mm across
2932.3 pxDensity / cover only
Myosotis brevis
Dwarf forget-me-not · 12 mm across
3121.5 pxDensity / cover only
Myosurus minimus subsp. novae-zelandiae
NZ mousetail · 30 mm across
2933.8 pxMarginal
Species D — to confirm
Assumed Myosotis hikuwai · 14 mm across
to confirm with Habitat NZ
3091.8 pxDensity / cover only
Hard negatives
Schist chips, lichen, droppings, shadow — must not be counted
23never count

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Truth first, then models. A run without truth on the frame produces counts but no accuracy.

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Synthetic ladder — 8.0 mm/px — dense — SATH