Shoreline Mural

We were mapping north of Seattle in a town called Shoreline, Washington when we noticed something odd in a parking lot next to a now-vacant Sears store. Check out this artwork from the air:

Paintings in a parking lot

We collect data on a regular basis to run experiments detecting objects and change over time. Our inventory of high-resolution overhead imagery of vehicles dates back to January 2016.

While we have plenty of datasets with parking lots for model training, this is our first parking lot with a painted octopus...

Octopus, starfish, sea urchin, and parking spaces